Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#404e09
#404e09
hex
#404e09rgb
rgb(64, 78, 9)hsl
hsl(72, 79%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.398 0.09 121.2)Closest name: Godzilla (#3c4d03)Relative luminance 0.0656
Colors that go with #404e09
Sage Green, Blue Violet and Royal 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.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #404e09 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 #404e09 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 #404e09: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #404e09 in 3 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #404e09 in 3 real palettes, including Mint Modern and Undergrowth, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #404e09 in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #404e09 in 3 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bookshop, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #404e09 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #404e09 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #404e09
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #404e09 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.31:1 | 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 #404e09 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
#404e09 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #404e09
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #404e09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/404e09-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md