Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#396065
#396065
hex
#396065rgb
rgb(57, 96, 101)hsl
hsl(187, 28%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.462 0.045 206.1)Closest name: After the Storm (#33616a)Relative luminance 0.1018
Colors that go with #396065
Sienna, 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.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #396065 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #396065, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #396065: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #396065, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #396065: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #396065 in 7 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Puma's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #396065, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #396065: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #396065
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #396065 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.92:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.04:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #396065 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #396065
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 #396065 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/396065-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?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