Lavender Milk
Open in tool →Lilac and pale violet with a blush accent on a lavender-white — the calmest pastel family, made for sleep, journaling and self-care.
Color
#34223f
#34223f
hex
#34223frgb
rgb(52, 34, 63)hsl
hsl(277, 30%, 19%)oklch
oklch(0.288 0.056 311.8)Closest name: Midnight Velvet (#2a2243)Relative luminance 0.0223
Colors that go with #34223f
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sienna 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #34223f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #34223f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #34223f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #34223f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #34223f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #34223f in 11 real palettes, including Beach Hut and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped19 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #34223f, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #34223f, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #34223f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #34223f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.52:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.45:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #34223f as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#34223f reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #34223f
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #34223f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/34223f-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md