Color

#404b35

#404b35
hex#404b35
rgbrgb(64, 75, 53)
hslhsl(90, 17%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.396 0.038 129.6)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0638

Colors that go with #404b35

Teal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #404b35

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#40354b

#4b4b35 · #354b35

#35404b · #4b3540

Split-complementary

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#35354b · #4b354b

#354b4b · #40354b · #4b3535

Contrast

#404b35 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.23:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697a57 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #879c73 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #404b35 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

#404b35 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #404b35
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 #404b35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/404b35-adbea2-514edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md