Color

#552b31

#552b31
hex#552b31
rgbrgb(85, 43, 49)
hslhsl(351, 33%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.346 0.062 11.8)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0388

Colors that go with #552b31

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 →

#2b554e

#552b46 · #55392b

#31552b · #2b3155

Split-complementary

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#2b5539 · #2b4655

#46552b · #2b554e · #392b55

Contrast

#552b31 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.82:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad5c68 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #c1858e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #552b31 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

#552b31 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #552b31
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 #552b31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/552b31-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md