Color
#404b01
#404b01rgb(64, 75, 1)hsl(69, 97%, 15%)oklch(0.389 0.091 118.9)Colors that go with #404b01
Saddle Brown, Sage Green and Blue Violet 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.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #404b01 in 5 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Bookshop, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #404b01 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #404b01 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #404b01: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #404b01 in 3 real palettes, including Instacart's brand system and Warp's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #404b01 in 3 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Desert Road — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #404b01 in 3 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #404b01: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #404b01
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #404b01 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.44:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.22:1 | 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 #404b01 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
#404b01 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. 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 #404b01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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