Color

#5a221c

#5a221c
hex#5a221c
rgbrgb(90, 34, 28)
hslhsl(6, 53%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.334 0.084 28.5)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.034

Colors that go with #5a221c

Royal Blue, Teal and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1c545a

#5a1c34 · #5a411c

#1c5a22 · #221c5a

Split-complementary

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#1c5a41 · #1c345a

#345a1c · #1c545a · #411c5a

Contrast

#5a221c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c55144 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #d58076 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (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 #5a221c 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

#5a221c reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5a221c
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 #5a221c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5a221c-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md