Color
#38191a
#38191argb(56, 25, 26)hsl(358, 38%, 16%)oklch(0.258 0.049 19.1)Colors that go with #38191a
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 #38191a: 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 #38191a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #38191a'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 #38191a — 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 #38191a 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 #38191a in 18 real palettes, including Maple and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped21 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #38191a, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #38191a in 9 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #38191a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38191a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.88:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.32:1 | 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 #38191a 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
#38191a 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 #38191a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/38191a-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?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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