Color

#5b5348

#5b5348
hex#5b5348
rgbrgb(91, 83, 72)
hslhsl(35, 12%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.447 0.02 75.9)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.0888

Colors that go with #5b5348

Blue, Champagne and Copper 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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#48505b

#5b4948 · #5a5b48

#485b53 · #53485b

Split-complementary

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#485a5b · #49485b

#485b49 · #48505b · #5b485a

Contrast

#5b5348 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.57:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817565 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #9f9484 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5b5348 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

#5b5348 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b5348
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 #5b5348 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b5348-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md