Color

#5b230b

#5b230b
hex#5b230b
rgbrgb(91, 35, 11)
hslhsl(18, 78%, 20%)
oklchoklch(0.335 0.089 41.4)
Closest name: Evil Cigar (#522000)Relative luminance 0.0345

Colors that go with #5b230b

Teal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #5b230b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b435b

#5b0b1b · #5b4b0b

#0b5b23 · #230b5b

Split-complementary

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#0b5b4b · #0b1b5b

#1b5b0b · #0b435b · #4b0b5b

Contrast

#5b230b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.43:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c84d19 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #e87645 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5b230b 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

#5b230b reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b230b
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 #5b230b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b230b-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md