Color

#56524d

#56524d
hex#56524d
rgbrgb(86, 82, 77)
hslhsl(33, 6%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.441 0.01 73.6)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.0855

Colors that go with #56524d

Blue, Cadet 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 #56524d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d5156

#564d4d · #56564d

#4d5652 · #524d56

Split-complementary

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#4d5656 · #4d4d56

#4d564d · #4d5156 · #564d56

Contrast

#56524d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.75:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c766e as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #9a958d as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #56524d 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

#56524d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #56524d
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 #56524d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/56524d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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