Color

#552a2d

#552a2d
hex#552a2d
rgbrgb(85, 42, 45)
hslhsl(356, 34%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.343 0.064 16.6)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0378

Colors that go with #552a2d

Sea Green, Steel Blue and Teal 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 #552a2d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a5553

#552a43 · #553d2a

#2d552a · #2a2d55

Split-complementary

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#2a553d · #2a4355

#43552a · #2a5553 · #3d2a55

Contrast

#552a2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.96:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b05e64 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #c4878b as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #552a2d 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

#552a2d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #552a2d
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 #552a2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/552a2d-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md