Color

#535c2e

#535c2e
hex#535c2e
rgbrgb(83, 92, 46)
hslhsl(72, 33%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.455 0.069 118.3)
Closest name: Cypress (#585d40)Relative luminance 0.0969

Colors that go with #535c2e

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 #535c2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#372e5c

#5c4e2e · #3c5c2e

#2e525c · #5c2e52

Split-complementary

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#2e3c5c · #4e2e5c

#2e5c4e · #372e5c · #5c2e3c

Contrast

#535c2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.15:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7a3e as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #8d9c4f as the text (7:1)
  • 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 #535c2e 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

#535c2e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #535c2e
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 #535c2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535c2e-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md