Color

#38444d

#38444d
hex#38444d
rgbrgb(56, 68, 77)
hslhsl(206, 16%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.38 0.022 240.6)
Closest name: Charcoal (#36454f)Relative luminance 0.0551

Colors that go with #38444d

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d4138

#384d4b · #38394d

#4d3844 · #444d38

Split-complementary

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#4d3839 · #4d4b38

#4b384d · #4d4138 · #394d38

Contrast

#38444d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.99:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637888 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8699a7 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38444d 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

#38444d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38444d
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 #38444d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38444d-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md