Color

#404c3e

#404c3e
hex#404c3e
rgbrgb(64, 76, 62)
hslhsl(111, 10%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.401 0.028 141.1)
Closest name: Ancient Pine (#444b43)Relative luminance 0.0661

Colors that go with #404c3e

Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #404c3e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4a3e4c

#474c3e · #3e4c43

#3e404c · #4c3e40

Split-complementary

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#433e4c · #4c3e47

#3e474c · #4a3e4c · #4c433e

Contrast

#404c3e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687b65 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8a9c86 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #404c3e 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

#404c3e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #404c3e
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 #404c3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/404c3e-a3bea2-834edf-1f2d23-eef1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md