Color

#38524b

#38524b
hex#38524b
rgbrgb(56, 82, 75)
hslhsl(164, 19%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.415 0.034 176)
Closest name: Hunter (#33534b)Relative luminance 0.0738

Colors that go with #38524b

Teal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #38524b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#52383f

#38523e · #384c52

#4b3852 · #524b38

Split-complementary

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#52384c · #523e38

#3e3852 · #52383f · #4c5238

Contrast

#38524b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.48:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557c72 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #73a094 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38524b 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

#38524b reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38524b
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 #38524b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38524b-a2beba-d459b5-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md