Color

#3c5053

#3c5053
hex#3c5053
rgbrgb(60, 80, 83)
hslhsl(188, 16%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.416 0.025 207.6)
Closest name: Abyssal (#404c57)Relative luminance 0.0732

Colors that go with #3c5053

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 →

#533f3c

#3c534a · #3c4453

#533c50 · #50533c

Split-complementary

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#533c44 · #534a3c

#4a3c53 · #533f3c · #44533c

Contrast

#3c5053 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.52:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5c7b7f as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #7d9ca1 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3c5053 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

#3c5053 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3c5053
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 #3c5053 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3c5053-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md