Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#42574f
#42574f
hex
#42574frgb
rgb(66, 87, 79)hsl
hsl(157, 14%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.437 0.029 169.7)Closest name: Iridescent (#3a5b52)Relative luminance 0.0854
Colors that go with #42574f
Blue, Cadet Blue and Copper 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #42574f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #42574f: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #42574f: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #42574f in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #42574f: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #42574f in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #42574f, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #42574f was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #42574f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42574f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.76:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.71:1 | 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 #42574f 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
#42574f reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #42574f
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 #42574f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/42574f-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?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