Blush
Open in tool →Rose and skin tones on a pink-white surface — soft focus, flattering, unmistakably beauty.
Named color
Smoky Charcoal
#34282c
hex
#34282crgb
rgb(52, 40, 44)hsl
hsl(340, 13%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.292 0.019 356.4)Relative luminance 0.0243
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 6 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Colors that go with Smoky Charcoal
Amber, Blue and Blue Violet 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Smoky Charcoal in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside Smoky Charcoal, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with Smoky Charcoal in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside Smoky Charcoal, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside Smoky Charcoal, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with Smoky Charcoal in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Smoky Charcoal: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface Smoky Charcoal was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use Smoky Charcoal
Tints & shades
Harmonies
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 |
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
Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Blossom
Open in tool →Cherry blossom, new leaf and pale primrose — a soft spring set for florists, weddings and anything that opens in April.
Fonts for this mood
Smoky Charcoal reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Smoky Charcoal
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 #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=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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