Color

#453a40

#453a40
hex#453a40
rgbrgb(69, 58, 64)
hslhsl(327, 9%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.362 0.018 344)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0466

Colors that go with #453a40

Amber, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #453a40

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3a453f

#453a45 · #453a3b

#40453a · #3a4045

Split-complementary

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#3b453a · #3a4545

#45453a · #3a453f · #3a3b45

Contrast

#453a40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.87:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856f7c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #a5939c as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #453a40 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

#453a40 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #453a40
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 #453a40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/453a40-c19fae-66cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md