Color

#2f4042

#2f4042
hex#2f4042
rgbrgb(47, 64, 66)
hslhsl(186, 17%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.358 0.022 205.2)
Closest name: Artist’s Charcoal (#37393e)Relative luminance 0.0466

Colors that go with #2f4042

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 →

#42302f

#2f423a · #2f3642

#422f40 · #40422f

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#422f36 · #423a2f

#3a2f42 · #42302f · #36422f

Contrast

#2f4042 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.86:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #597a7d as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #799ca0 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2f4042 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

#2f4042 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2f4042
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 #2f4042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2f4042-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md