Color

#42422e

#42422e
hex#42422e
rgbrgb(66, 66, 46)
hslhsl(60, 18%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.373 0.032 107.9)
Closest name: Avocado Stone (#4e3e1f)Relative luminance 0.0525

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e2e42

#42382e · #38422e

#2e4242 · #422e42

Split-complementary

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#2e3842 · #382e42

#2e4238 · #2e2e42 · #422e38

Contrast

#42422e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.24:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787854 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #99996c as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42422e 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

#42422e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42422e
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 #42422e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42422e-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md