Color

#552b16

#552b16
hex#552b16
rgbrgb(85, 43, 22)
hslhsl(20, 59%, 21%)
oklchoklch(0.34 0.07 45.9)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0372

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#164055

#551620 · #554b16

#16552b · #2b1655

Split-complementary

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#16554b · #162055

#205516 · #164055 · #4b1655

Contrast

#552b16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65c2f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #d48259 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #552b16 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

#552b16 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #552b16
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 #552b16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/552b16-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md