Color

#402b2f

#402b2f
hex#402b2f
rgbrgb(64, 43, 47)
hslhsl(349, 20%, 21%)
oklchoklch(0.316 0.032 6.5)
Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0302

Colors that go with #402b2f

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.

Real palettes that use #402b2f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2b403c

#402b39 · #40322b

#2f402b · #2b2f40

Split-complementary

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#2b4032 · #2b3940

#39402b · #2b403c · #322b40

Contrast

#402b2f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9b6972 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #b48e95 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #999999 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (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 #402b2f 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

#402b2f reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #402b2f
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #402b2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/402b2f-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md