Color

#383842

#383842
hex#383842
rgbrgb(56, 56, 66)
hslhsl(240, 8%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.345 0.017 285.5)
Closest name: After Midnight (#38393f)Relative luminance 0.0406

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#424238

#383d42 · #3d3842

#423838 · #384238

Split-complementary

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#423d38 · #3d4238

#42383d · #424238 · #38423d

Contrast

#383842 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737387 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #9494a4 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a3a3a3 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cccccc (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #383842 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

#383842 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #383842
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #383842 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/383842-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md