Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#045240
#045240
hex
#045240rgb
rgb(4, 82, 64)hsl
hsl(166, 91%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.391 0.075 171.1)Closest name: Cape Verde (#01554f)Relative luminance 0.0643
Colors that go with #045240
Crimson, Blue and Denim 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.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #045240: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Instacart's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #045240, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #045240: 6 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #045240 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and CircleCI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #045240, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #045240 in 5 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and HubSpot's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #045240: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Nursery, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #045240: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #045240
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #045240 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.19:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.29:1 | 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 #045240 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
#045240 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #045240
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 #045240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/045240-a2bebb-d459b1-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?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