Color
#595c42
#595c42rgb(89, 92, 66)hsl(67, 16%, 31%)oklch(0.465 0.04 113.3)Colors that go with #595c42
Charcoal, Slate 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #595c42: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #595c42 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #595c42.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #595c42: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #595c42 in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #595c42: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #595c42 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Mint Modern and Graphite put Orange beside #595c42, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #595c42
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #595c42 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.92:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.03:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #595c42 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #595c42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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