Color
#40740b
#40740brgb(64, 116, 11)hsl(90, 83%, 25%)oklch(0.503 0.139 134)Colors that go with #40740b
Charcoal, Crimson and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #40740b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #40740b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Instacart's brand system put Blue beside #40740b, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #40740b: 5 real palettes, including Xbox's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #40740b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #40740b: 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #40740b in 13 real palettes, including Acer's brand system and Instacart's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #40740b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #40740b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40740b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.64:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.72:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40740b 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
#40740b 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 #40740b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/40740b-adbea2-514edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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