Color

#5b553e

#5b553e
hex#5b553e
rgbrgb(91, 85, 62)
hslhsl(48, 19%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.449 0.036 95.2)
Closest name: Cypress (#585d40)Relative luminance 0.0907

Colors that go with #5b553e

Slate Blue, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3e445b

#5b473e · #525b3e

#3e5b55 · #553e5b

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#3e525b · #473e5b

#3e5b47 · #3e445b · #5b3e52

Contrast

#5b553e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7757 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #a09773 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5b553e 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

#5b553e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b553e
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 #5b553e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b553e-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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