Color
#53655f
#53655frgb(83, 101, 95)hsl(160, 10%, 36%)oklch(0.49 0.024 173.1)Colors that go with #53655f
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #53655f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #53655f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #53655f: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #53655f.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #53655f: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #53655f in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #53655f: 9 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #53655f: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Newsprint, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #53655f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #53655f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.19:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.39:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #53655f as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #53655f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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