Color

#552a30

#552a30
hex#552a30
rgbrgb(85, 42, 48)
hslhsl(352, 34%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.344 0.064 12.1)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.038

Colors that go with #552a30

Dark Olive 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2a5550

#552a46 · #553a2a

#30552a · #2a3055

Split-complementary

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#2a553a · #2a4655

#46552a · #2a5550 · #3a2a55

Contrast

#552a30 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.93:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b05e69 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #c4878f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #552a30 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

#552a30 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #552a30
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 #552a30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/552a30-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md