Color

#3e403a

#3e403a
hex#3e403a
rgbrgb(62, 64, 58)
hslhsl(80, 5%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.368 0.01 122)
Closest name: Black Olive (#3b3c36)Relative luminance 0.05

Colors that go with #3e403a

Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #3e403a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3c3a40

#403f3a · #3b403a

#3a3e40 · #403a3e

Split-complementary

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#3a3b40 · #3f3a40

#3a403f · #3c3a40 · #403a3b

Contrast

#3e403a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #72766b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #93978c as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3e403a 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

#3e403a reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e403a
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 #3e403a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3e403a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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