Color

#403e2b

#403e2b
hex#403e2b
rgbrgb(64, 62, 43)
hslhsl(54, 20%, 21%)
oklchoklch(0.36 0.031 102.8)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0471

Colors that go with #403e2b

Dark Olive Green, Steel Blue and Slate 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.

Real palettes that use #403e2b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2b2d40

#40332b · #38402b

#2b403e · #3e2b40

Split-complementary

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#2b3840 · #332b40

#2b4033 · #2b2d40 · #402b38

Contrast

#403e2b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.81:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7652 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #9d986c as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #403e2b 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

#403e2b reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #403e2b
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 #403e2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/403e2b-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md