Color

#553a42

#553a42
hex#553a42
rgbrgb(85, 58, 66)
hslhsl(342, 19%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.382 0.04 359.8)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0535

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3a554d

#553a50 · #553f3a

#42553a · #3a4255

Split-complementary

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#3a553f · #3a5055

#50553a · #3a554d · #3f3a55

Contrast

#553a42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.14:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986776 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #b18c97 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #553a42 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

#553a42 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #553a42
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 #553a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/553a42-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md