Color

#5e4236

#5e4236
hex#5e4236
rgbrgb(94, 66, 54)
hslhsl(18, 27%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.407 0.044 44.2)
Closest name: Brunette (#664238)Relative luminance 0.0654

Colors that go with #5e4236

Teal, 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.

Real palettes that use #5e4236

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#36525e

#5e363e · #5e5636

#365e42 · #42365e

Split-complementary

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#365e56 · #363e5e

#3e5e36 · #36525e · #56365e

Contrast

#5e4236 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.1:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986b57 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #b58e7d as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5e4236 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

#5e4236 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e4236
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 #5e4236 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5e4236-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md