Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#366263
#366263
hex
#366263rgb
rgb(54, 98, 99)hsl
hsl(181, 29%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.465 0.049 197.5)Closest name: After the Storm (#33616a)Relative luminance 0.1042
Colors that go with #366263
Rust, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Rust #b7410e
complementaryshippedRust sits directly opposite #366263 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #366263 in 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #366263 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #366263 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #366263 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #366263 in 10 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #366263 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #366263: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #366263
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #366263 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.81:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #366263 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
#366263 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #366263
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 #366263 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/366263-a2babe-d45992-1f272d-e9f1ed?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