Color

#553a34

#553a34
hex#553a34
rgbrgb(85, 58, 52)
hslhsl(11, 24%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.378 0.04 32.9)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0521

Colors that go with #553a34

Sea Green, Teal and Blue 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 #553a34

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#344f55

#55343f · #554b34

#34553a · #3a3455

Split-complementary

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#34554b · #343f55

#3f5534 · #344f55 · #4b3455

Contrast

#553a34 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.29:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9b6a5f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #b38c84 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (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 #553a34 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

#553a34 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #553a34
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 #553a34 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/553a34-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md