Color

#253228

#253228
hex#253228
rgbrgb(37, 50, 40)
hslhsl(134, 15%, 17%)
oklchoklch(0.302 0.025 151.7)
Closest name: Marshland (#2b2e26)Relative luminance 0.0283

Colors that go with #253228

Amber, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #253228

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#32252f

#283225 · #25322e

#282532 · #322825

Split-complementary

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#2e2532 · #322528

#252832 · #32252f · #322e25

Contrast

#253228 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.41:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5d7e65 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #7ea086 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #969696 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #253228 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#253228 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #253228
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 #253228 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/253228-a2beac-b559d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md