Color
#400a48
#400a48rgb(64, 10, 72)hsl(292, 76%, 16%)oklch(0.276 0.115 322.1)Colors that go with #400a48
Charcoal, Blue and Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #400a48: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #400a48 in 9 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #400a48 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #400a48 in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Hershey's's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #400a48 in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Wellness, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #400a48 in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Retool's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #400a48 in 7 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Pinterest's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #400a48: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #400a48
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #400a48 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.5:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.35:1 | 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 #400a48 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
#400a48 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #400a48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/400a48-c09fc1-a3cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?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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