Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#42364a
#42364a
hex
#42364argb
rgb(66, 54, 74)hsl
hsl(276, 16%, 25%)oklch
oklch(0.354 0.037 311.6)Closest name: Call It a Night (#42364c)Relative luminance 0.0429
Colors that go with #42364a
Dark Olive Green, Teal and 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #42364a 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 #42364a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #42364a, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #42364a, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #42364a in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #42364a: 7 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #42364a, as the text colour against it.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #42364a: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #42364a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42364a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.86:1 | 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 #42364a 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
#42364a reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #42364a
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 #42364a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/42364a-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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