Color

#3e282e

#3e282e
hex#3e282e
rgbrgb(62, 40, 46)
hslhsl(344, 22%, 20%)
oklchoklch(0.306 0.034 1.5)
Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0274

Colors that go with #3e282e

Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #3e282e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#283e38

#3e2839 · #3e2d28

#2e3e28 · #282e3e

Split-complementary

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#283e2d · #28393e

#393e28 · #283e38 · #2d283e

Contrast

#3e282e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.57:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6775 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #b58c97 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #969696 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3e282e 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

#3e282e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e282e
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 #3e282e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3e282e-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md