Blush
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Color
#40262e
#40262e
hex
#40262ergb
rgb(64, 38, 46)hsl
hsl(342, 25%, 20%)oklch
oklch(0.304 0.041 359.9)Closest name: Castro (#44232f)Relative luminance 0.0267
Colors that go with #40262e
Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Sienna 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #40262e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #40262e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #40262e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #40262e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #40262e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #40262e in 7 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #40262e in 12 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #40262e wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #40262e reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #40262e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40262e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.68:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.53:1 | 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 #40262e 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
#40262e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #40262e
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 #40262e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/40262e-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?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