Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#3a595f
#3a595f
hex
#3a595frgb
rgb(58, 89, 95)hsl
hsl(190, 24%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.442 0.038 211)Closest name: Arctic Nights (#345c61)Relative luminance 0.0887
Colors that go with #3a595f
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 #3a595f 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 Jeep's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #3a595f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #3a595f: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #3a595f: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #3a595f: 9 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #3a595f in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #3a595f in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Mint Modern, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #3a595f: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #3a595f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3a595f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.57:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.77:1 | 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 #3a595f 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
#3a595f reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3a595f
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 #3a595f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3a595f-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?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