Color

#285d5d

#285d5d
hex#285d5d
rgbrgb(40, 93, 93)
hslhsl(180, 40%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.443 0.056 195.3)
Closest name: Arctic Nights (#345c61)Relative luminance 0.0907

Colors that go with #285d5d

Firebrick, 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.

Real palettes that use #285d5d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d2828

#285d42 · #28425d

#5d285d · #5d5d28

Split-complementary

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#5d2842 · #5d4228

#42285d · #5d2828 · #425d28

Contrast

#285d5d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #378181 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #46a4a4 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285d5d 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

#285d5d reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #285d5d
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 #285d5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/285d5d-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md