Color

#294d51

#294d51
hex#294d51
rgbrgb(41, 77, 81)
hslhsl(186, 33%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.395 0.042 204.8)
Closest name: darkslategray (#2f4f4f)Relative luminance 0.0637

Colors that go with #294d51

Steel Blue, Teal and Rust 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 →

#512d29

#295141 · #293951

#51294d · #4d5129

Split-complementary

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#512939 · #514129

#412951 · #512d29 · #395129

Contrast

#294d51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.23:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #437e84 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #55a1aa as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #294d51 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

#294d51 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #294d51
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 #294d51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/294d51-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md