Color

#555c2e

#555c2e
hex#555c2e
rgbrgb(85, 92, 46)
hslhsl(69, 33%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.457 0.068 116.3)
Closest name: Cypress (#585d40)Relative luminance 0.0978

Colors that go with #555c2e

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 #555c2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#352e5c

#5c4c2e · #3e5c2e

#2e555c · #5c2e55

Split-complementary

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#2e3e5c · #4c2e5c

#2e5c4c · #352e5c · #5c2e3e

Contrast

#555c2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.1:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717a3e as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #909c4f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #555c2e 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

#555c2e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #555c2e
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 #555c2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/555c2e-b7bea2-4e7edf-252d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md