Color

#383a42

#383a42
hex#383a42
rgbrgb(56, 58, 66)
hslhsl(228, 8%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.35 0.014 274.5)
Closest name: After Midnight (#38393f)Relative luminance 0.0426

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#424038

#383f42 · #3b3842

#42383a · #3a4238

Split-complementary

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#423b38 · #3f4238

#42383f · #424038 · #38423b

Contrast

#383a42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.34:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717584 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9497a4 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cccccc (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #383a42 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

#383a42 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #383a42
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 #383a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/383a42-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md