Color

#285251

#285251
hex#285251
rgbrgb(40, 82, 81)
hslhsl(179, 34%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.408 0.047 193.4)
Closest name: darkslategray (#2f4f4f)Relative luminance 0.0708

Colors that go with #285251

Teal, Blue and Cadet 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 →

#522829

#28523d · #283e52

#512852 · #525128

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#52283e · #523d28

#3d2852 · #522829 · #3e5228

Contrast

#285251 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #408281 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #51a4a3 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285251 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

#285251 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #285251
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 #285251 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/285251-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md