Color

#5e171f

#5e171f
hex#5e171f
rgbrgb(94, 23, 31)
hslhsl(353, 61%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.327 0.102 18.7)
Closest name: Cherry Picking (#620b15)Relative luminance 0.0309

Colors that go with #5e171f

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

Open in tool →

#175e56

#5e1743 · #5e3217

#1f5e17 · #171f5e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#175e32 · #17435e

#435e17 · #175e56 · #32175e

Contrast

#5e171f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.98:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d14253 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #de7883 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #999999 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (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 #5e171f 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

#5e171f reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e171f
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 #5e171f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5e171f-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md