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
#3d574f
#3d574f
hex
#3d574frgb
rgb(61, 87, 79)hsl
hsl(162, 18%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.433 0.034 173.6)Closest name: Iridescent (#3a5b52)Relative luminance 0.0837
Colors that go with #3d574f
Teal, 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.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #3d574f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #3d574f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #3d574f: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #3d574f: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #3d574f in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #3d574f: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #3d574f in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #3d574f: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #3d574f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3d574f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.85:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.67:1 | 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 #3d574f 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
#3d574f reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3d574f
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 #3d574f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3d574f-a2beb9-d459b9-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?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