Color

#42414e

#42414e
hex#42414e
rgbrgb(66, 65, 78)
hslhsl(245, 9%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.381 0.022 288.8)
Closest name: Arsenic (#3b444b)Relative luminance 0.0549

Colors that go with #42414e

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 #42414e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d4e41

#41464e · #48414e

#4e4241 · #414e42

Split-complementary

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#4e4841 · #464e41

#4e4146 · #4d4e41 · #414e48

Contrast

#42414e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747288 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9795a7 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42414e 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

#42414e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42414e
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 #42414e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42414e-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md