Named color

Smoky Charcoal

#34282c

hex#34282c

rgbrgb(52, 40, 44)

hslhsl(340, 13%, 18%)

oklchoklch(0.292 0.019 356.4)

Relative luminance 0.0243

Warm Muted Dark Editorial Elegant Luxury Bold

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Smoky Charcoal on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 2 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

4b3a3f 624b53 795d66 906f7a a2868f b49da5 c5b4ba d7cbcf e9e2e4 fbf9fa

Shades — toward black

312629 2b2125 281f22 231b1d 20181b 1d1618 171214 141011 0e0b0c 0c090a

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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34282c 283430

#283430

Analogous

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34282c 342832 342a28

#342832 · #342a28

Triadic

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34282c 2c3428 282c34

#2c3428 · #282c34

Split-complementary

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34282c 28342a 283234

#28342a · #283234

Tetradic

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34282c 323428 283430 2a2834

#323428 · #283430 · #2a2834

Contrast

Smoky Charcoal as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.13:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.49:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8d6d78 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #a88f97 as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.66:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (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 Smoky Charcoal as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

d4867a e9c2b8 7a4a4a fdf4f1 3a2a2a

Blush

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Rose and skin tones on a pink-white surface — soft focus, flattering, unmistakably beauty.

Light Warm ElegantBeauty

Fonts for this mood

Smoky Charcoal reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Smoky Charcoal

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 #34282c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/34282c-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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