Color

#2e4042

#2e4042
hex#2e4042
rgbrgb(46, 64, 66)
hslhsl(186, 18%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.357 0.023 204.7)
Closest name: Artist’s Charcoal (#37393e)Relative luminance 0.0464

Colors that go with #2e4042

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42302e

#2e423a · #2e3642

#422e40 · #40422e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#422e36 · #423a2e

#3a2e42 · #42302e · #36422e

Contrast

#2e4042 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.89:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #587b7e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #789da1 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2e4042 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

#2e4042 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2e4042
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 #2e4042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2e4042-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md