Color

#535c2d

#535c2d
hex#535c2d
rgbrgb(83, 92, 45)
hslhsl(71, 34%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.455 0.07 118.2)
Closest name: Cypress (#585d40)Relative luminance 0.0968

Colors that go with #535c2d

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #535c2d

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#362d5c

#5c4d2d · #3c5c2d

#2d545c · #5c2d54

Split-complementary

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#2d3c5c · #4d2d5c

#2d5c4d · #362d5c · #5c2d3c

Contrast

#535c2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.15:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707b3d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #8f9d4d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #535c2d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#535c2d reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #535c2d
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #535c2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535c2d-b6bea2-4e7adf-252d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md