Color

#38474c

#38474c
hex#38474c
rgbrgb(56, 71, 76)
hslhsl(195, 15%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.387 0.021 220.1)
Closest name: Arsenic (#3b444b)Relative luminance 0.0587

Colors that go with #38474c

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

Open in tool →

#4c3d38

#384c47 · #383d4c

#4c3847 · #474c38

Split-complementary

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#4c383d · #4c4738

#47384c · #4c3d38 · #3d4c38

Contrast

#38474c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7981 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #819aa2 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38474c 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

#38474c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38474c
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 #38474c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38474c-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md