Color

#40453a

#40453a
hex#40453a
rgbrgb(64, 69, 58)
hslhsl(87, 9%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.382 0.019 127.3)
Closest name: Black Panther (#424242)Relative luminance 0.0565

Colors that go with #40453a

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 #40453a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3f3a45

#45453a · #3b453a

#3a4045 · #453a40

Split-complementary

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#3a3b45 · #453a45

#3a4545 · #3f3a45 · #453a3b

Contrast

#40453a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.86:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7864 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #909985 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40453a 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

#40453a reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40453a
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 #40453a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40453a-aebea2-4e53df-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md