Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#38281e
#38281e
hex
#38281ergb
rgb(56, 40, 30)hsl
hsl(23, 30%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.293 0.03 53.2)Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0245
Colors that go with #38281e
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #38281e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #38281e in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped20 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #38281e, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #38281e in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #38281e, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #38281e in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #38281e: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and SoFi's brand system, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #38281e, as the surface under it.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38281e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.09:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.49:1 | 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 #38281e 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
Resort
Open in tool →Terracotta, eucalyptus and sand — a sun-washed palette that feels like linen.
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Fonts for this mood
#38281e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #38281e
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 #38281e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/38281e-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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