Color

#3e282c

#3e282c
hex#3e282c
rgbrgb(62, 40, 44)
hslhsl(349, 22%, 20%)
oklchoklch(0.305 0.034 7.3)
Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0272

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#283e3a

#3e2837 · #3e2f28

#2c3e28 · #282c3e

Split-complementary

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#283e2f · #28373e

#373e28 · #283e3a · #2f283e

Contrast

#3e282c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6771 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #b58c94 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #969696 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bababa (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3e282c 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

#3e282c reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e282c
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #3e282c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3e282c-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md