Color
#3b404e
#3b404ergb(59, 64, 78)hsl(224, 14%, 27%)oklch(0.372 0.025 269.7)Colors that go with #3b404e
Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #3b404e, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #3b404e, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #3b404e in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #3b404e: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #3b404e: 9 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Clean Beauty.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #3b404e in 9 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #3b404e in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #3b404e was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #3b404e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3b404e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.35:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.03:1 | 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 #3b404e 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
#3b404e reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #3b404e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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