Color

#53745b

#53745b
hex#53745b
rgbrgb(83, 116, 91)
hslhsl(135, 17%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.526 0.055 151.7)
Closest name: Cactus (#5b6f55)Relative luminance 0.1509

Colors that go with #53745b

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #53745b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#74536c

#5b7453 · #53746c

#5b5374 · #745b53

Split-complementary

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#6c5374 · #74535b

#535b74 · #74536c · #746c53

Contrast

#53745b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.23:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #445f4b as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
4.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #597d62 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #79a082 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #53745b as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #53745b
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 #53745b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53745b-a2beac-b759d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md