Color

#394951

#394951
hex#394951
rgbrgb(57, 73, 81)
hslhsl(200, 17%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.395 0.024 229.8)
Closest name: Charcoal (#36454f)Relative luminance 0.0623

Colors that go with #394951

Blue, Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#514139

#39514d · #393d51

#513949 · #495139

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#51393d · #514d39

#4d3951 · #514139 · #3d5139

Contrast

#394951 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.35:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7986 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #829aa6 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (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 #394951 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

#394951 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #394951
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 #394951 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/394951-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md