Color
#38151a
#38151argb(56, 21, 26)hsl(351, 45%, 15%)oklch(0.251 0.056 13.1)Colors that go with #38151a
Charcoal, Sea 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 body-text near-black for #38151a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #38151a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #38151a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #38151a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #38151a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #38151a in 18 real palettes, including Maple and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #38151a, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #38151a in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #38151a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38151a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.27:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.29:1 | 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 #38151a 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
#38151a reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #38151a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/38151a-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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