Color

#403a40

#403a40
hex#403a40
rgbrgb(64, 58, 64)
hslhsl(300, 5%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.357 0.013 325.8)
Closest name: After Midnight (#38393f)Relative luminance 0.0449

Colors that go with #403a40

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 #403a40

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3a403a

#3d3a40 · #403a3d

#40403a · #3a4040

Split-complementary

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#3d403a · #3a403d

#403d3a · #3a403a · #3a3d40

Contrast

#403a40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e727e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9e949e as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #403a40 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

#403a40 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #403a40
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 #403a40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/403a40-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md