Color

#225353

#225353
hex#225353
rgbrgb(34, 83, 83)
hslhsl(180, 42%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.409 0.053 195.3)
Closest name: darkslategray (#2f4f4f)Relative luminance 0.0715

Colors that go with #225353

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 →

#532222

#22533b · #223b53

#532253 · #535322

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#53223b · #533b22

#3b2253 · #532222 · #3b5322

Contrast

#225353 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.64:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #358282 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #43a3a3 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #225353 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

#225353 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #225353
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 #225353 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/225353-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md