Color

#353e40

#353e40
hex#353e40
rgbrgb(53, 62, 64)
hslhsl(191, 9%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.356 0.012 212.6)
Closest name: Artist’s Charcoal (#37393e)Relative luminance 0.0457

Colors that go with #353e40

Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 →

#403735

#35403d · #353940

#40353e · #3e4035

Split-complementary

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#403539 · #403d35

#3d3540 · #403735 · #394035

Contrast

#353e40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.97:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68797d as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #8a9a9e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #353e40 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

#353e40 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #353e40
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 #353e40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/353e40-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md