Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#3c2e1a
#3c2e1a
hex
#3c2e1argb
rgb(60, 46, 26)hsl
hsl(35, 40%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.312 0.038 75.5)Closest name: Cola (#3c2f23)Relative luminance 0.0299
Colors that go with #3c2e1a
Dark Olive Green, Sienna and Steel 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #3c2e1a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #3c2e1a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #3c2e1a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #3c2e1a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #3c2e1a in 8 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped14 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #3c2e1a, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Blush and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #3c2e1a, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #3c2e1a wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #3c2e1a reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #3c2e1a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3c2e1a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.6:1 | 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 #3c2e1a 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
#3c2e1a reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3c2e1a
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 #3c2e1a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3c2e1a-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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