Color

#55231b

#55231b
hex#55231b
rgbrgb(85, 35, 27)
hslhsl(8, 52%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.326 0.076 30.9)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0321

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1b4d55

#551b30 · #55401b

#1b5523 · #231b55

Split-complementary

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#1b5540 · #1b3055

#30551b · #1b4d55 · #401b55

Contrast

#55231b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.79:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c35241 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #d38073 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55231b 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

#55231b reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55231b
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #55231b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55231b-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md