Color

#38474d

#38474d
hex#38474d
rgbrgb(56, 71, 77)
hslhsl(197, 16%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.387 0.022 224.2)
Closest name: Charcoal (#36454f)Relative luminance 0.0588

Colors that go with #38474d

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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#4d3e38

#384d48 · #383c4d

#4d3847 · #474d38

Split-complementary

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#4d383c · #4d4838

#48384d · #4d3e38 · #3c4d38

Contrast

#38474d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.65:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #607b85 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8099a3 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.17:1)

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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/38474d-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md