Color

#38423e

#38423e
hex#38423e
rgbrgb(56, 66, 62)
hslhsl(156, 8%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.369 0.015 169.4)
Closest name: Black Panther (#424242)Relative luminance 0.0508

Colors that go with #38423e

Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #38423e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42383c

#384239 · #384142

#3e3842 · #423e38

Split-complementary

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#423841 · #423938

#393842 · #42383c · #414238

Contrast

#38423e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.41:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677972 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #899a93 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38423e 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

Fonts for this mood

#38423e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38423e
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #38423e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38423e-a2beb6-d459c6-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md