Color

#3f504e

#3f504e
hex#3f504e
rgbrgb(63, 80, 78)
hslhsl(173, 12%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.416 0.022 187.6)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0734

Colors that go with #3f504e

Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#503f41

#3f5045 · #3f4950

#4e3f50 · #504e3f

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#503f49 · #50453f

#453f50 · #503f41 · #49503f

Contrast

#3f504e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #607b78 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #819c99 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3f504e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#3f504e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3f504e
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 #3f504e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3f504e-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md