Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#34231e
#34231e
hex
#34231ergb
rgb(52, 35, 30)hsl
hsl(14, 27%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.275 0.028 37)Closest name: Aubergine (#372528)Relative luminance 0.0203
Colors that go with #34231e
Charcoal, Amber and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #34231e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #34231e in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #34231e, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #34231e in 8 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #34231e, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #34231e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #34231e in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #34231e: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and SoFi's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #34231e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #34231e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.94:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.41:1 | 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 #34231e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Fonts for this mood
#34231e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #34231e
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 #34231e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/34231e-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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