Color

brown

#a52a2a
hex#a52a2a
rgbrgb(165, 42, 42)
hslhsl(0, 59%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.481 0.16 25.6)
Relative luminance 0.0982

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2ba6a6

#a62b69 · #a6692b

#2ba62b · #2b2ba6

Split-complementary

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#2ba669 · #2b69a6

#69a62b · #2ba6a6 · #692ba6

Contrast

brown as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.08:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cf4444 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #dc7979 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.08:1)

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

brown reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around brown
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a52a2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a52a2a-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md