Color

#553d30

#553d30
hex#553d30
rgbrgb(85, 61, 48)
hslhsl(21, 28%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.383 0.04 49.6)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0548

Colors that go with #553d30

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 #553d30

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#304855

#553035 · #554f30

#30553d · #3d3055

Split-complementary

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#30554f · #303555

#355530 · #304855 · #4f3055

Contrast

#553d30 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.02:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966b54 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #b48e79 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #553d30 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

#553d30 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #553d30
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 #553d30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/553d30-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md