Color
#5e511d
#5e511drgb(94, 81, 29)hsl(48, 53%, 24%)oklch(0.437 0.072 95.2)Colors that go with #5e511d
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sage Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #5e511d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #5e511d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #5e511d: 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #5e511d, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5e511d: 3 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5e511d in 3 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #5e511d in 3 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #5e511d in 3 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Trailhead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5e511d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e511d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.86:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5e511d 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
#5e511d reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #5e511d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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