Color

#5e2d17

#5e2d17
hex#5e2d17
rgbrgb(94, 45, 23)
hslhsl(19, 61%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.358 0.079 43.6)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0432

Colors that go with #5e2d17

Crimson, 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 →

#17485e

#5e1724 · #5e5117

#175e2e · #2e175e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#175e51 · #17245e

#245e17 · #17485e · #51175e

Contrast

#5e2d17 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.27:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b9592d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #d67f57 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cccccc (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 #5e2d17 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

#5e2d17 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e2d17
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 #5e2d17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5e2d17-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md