Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#3e2d13
#3e2d13
hex
#3e2d13rgb
rgb(62, 45, 19)hsl
hsl(36, 53%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.311 0.047 76.1)Closest name: Cola (#3c2f23)Relative luminance 0.0295
Colors that go with #3e2d13
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #3e2d13: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #3e2d13's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #3e2d13 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #3e2d13: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #3e2d13 in 8 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Maple, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #3e2d13, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Blush and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #3e2d13, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #3e2d13 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #3e2d13
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3e2d13 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.21:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.59:1 | 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 #3e2d13 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
#3e2d13 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e2d13
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 #3e2d13 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3e2d13-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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