Blush
Open in tool →Rose and skin tones on a pink-white surface — soft focus, flattering, unmistakably beauty.
Color
#3e282a
#3e282a
hex
#3e282argb
rgb(62, 40, 42)hsl
hsl(355, 22%, 20%)oklch
oklch(0.304 0.033 13.2)Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0271
Colors that go with #3e282a
Sea 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #3e282a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #3e282a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #3e282a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #3e282a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #3e282a in 10 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped14 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #3e282a, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Blush and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #3e282a, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #3e282a wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #3e282a reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #3e282a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3e282a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.62:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.54:1 | 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 #3e282a 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
#3e282a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e282a
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 #3e282a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3e282a-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?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