Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#342d18
#342d18
hex
#342d18rgb
rgb(52, 45, 24)hsl
hsl(45, 37%, 15%)oklch
oklch(0.299 0.036 91.6)Closest name: Secret Passage (#372a05)Relative luminance 0.0267
Colors that go with #342d18
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Royal 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 body-text near-black for #342d18: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #342d18's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #342d18 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #342d18's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #342d18: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #342d18 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #342d18 in 7 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Maple, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #342d18, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #342d18
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #342d18 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.68:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.53:1 | 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 #342d18 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
Fonts for this mood
#342d18 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #342d18
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 #342d18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/342d18-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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