Color

#653e42

#653e42
hex#653e42
rgbrgb(101, 62, 66)
hslhsl(354, 24%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.411 0.055 13.1)
Closest name: Brunette (#664238)Relative luminance 0.0661

Colors that go with #653e42

Teal, Copper and Denim 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 #653e42

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3e6561

#653e56 · #654e3e

#42653e · #3e4265

Split-complementary

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#3e654e · #3e5665

#56653e · #3e6561 · #4e3e65

Contrast

#653e42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a0646a as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #b78a8f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #653e42 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

#653e42 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #653e42
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 #653e42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/653e42-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md