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Open in tool →Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.
Color
#38574b
#38574b
hex
#38574brgb
rgb(56, 87, 75)hsl
hsl(157, 22%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.429 0.042 168.1)Closest name: Iridescent (#3a5b52)Relative luminance 0.0817
Colors that go with #38574b
Teal, Blue and Cadet Blue 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.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #38574b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #38574b, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #38574b: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #38574b: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #38574b in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #38574b: 5 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #38574b in 5 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Chime's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #38574b: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #38574b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38574b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.98:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.63:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38574b 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
#38574b reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #38574b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #38574b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/38574b-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md