Color

#3d494d

#3d494d
hex#3d494d
rgbrgb(61, 73, 77)
hslhsl(195, 12%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.396 0.017 219.9)
Closest name: Arsenic (#3b444b)Relative luminance 0.0629

Colors that go with #3d494d

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.

Real palettes that use #3d494d

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d413d

#3d4d49 · #3d414d

#4d3d49 · #494d3d

Split-complementary

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#4d3d41 · #4d493d

#493d4d · #4d413d · #414d3d

Contrast

#3d494d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.3:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657a81 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #879aa1 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3d494d 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

#3d494d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3d494d
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 #3d494d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3d494d-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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