Color
#40591c
#40591crgb(64, 89, 28)hsl(85, 52%, 23%)oklch(0.43 0.092 128.7)Colors that go with #40591c
Sage Green, Taupe and Dark Orchid 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 #40591c in 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #40591c in 12 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #40591c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #40591c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #40591c in 3 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Mint Modern, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #40591c in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #40591c in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #40591c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #40591c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40591c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.88:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.66:1 | 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 #40591c 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
#40591c reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #40591c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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