Color

#42403e

#42403e
hex#42403e
rgbrgb(66, 64, 62)
hslhsl(30, 3%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.373 0.004 67.7)
Closest name: Black Panther (#424242)Relative luminance 0.0517

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3e4042

#423e3e · #42423e

#3e4240 · #403e42

Split-complementary

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#3e4242 · #3e3e42

#3e423e · #3e4042 · #423e42

Contrast

#42403e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.03:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797572 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9a9693 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (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 #42403e 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

#42403e reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42403e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #42403e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42403e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md