Color

#553a2a

#553a2a
hex#553a2a
rgbrgb(85, 58, 42)
hslhsl(22, 34%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.375 0.046 51.5)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0512

Colors that go with #553a2a

Teal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #553a2a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a4655

#552a30 · #55502a

#2a553a · #3a2a55

Split-complementary

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#2a5550 · #2a3055

#30552a · #2a4655 · #502a55

Contrast

#553a2a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6b4d as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #ba8d73 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (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 #553a2a 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

#553a2a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #553a2a
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 #553a2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/553a2a-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md