Color

#555b2a

#555b2a
hex#555b2a
rgbrgb(85, 91, 42)
hslhsl(67, 37%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.454 0.071 115.1)
Closest name: Cypress (#585d40)Relative luminance 0.0958

Colors that go with #555b2a

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Champagne 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 #555b2a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2f2a5b

#5b482a · #3d5b2a

#2a555b · #5b2a55

Split-complementary

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#2a3d5b · #482a5b

#2a5b48 · #2f2a5b · #5b2a3d

Contrast

#555b2a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.2:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737a38 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #939d48 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #555b2a 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

#555b2a reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #555b2a
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 #555b2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/555b2a-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md