Color
#40843e
#40843ergb(64, 132, 62)hsl(118, 36%, 38%)oklch(0.552 0.125 143.1)Colors that go with #40843e
Charcoal, Royal Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #40843e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #40843e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryshippedDark Orchid sits directly opposite #40843e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #40843e: 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #40843e in 6 real palettes, including Coinbase's brand system and Five Guys's brand system.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #40843e: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #40843e, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #40843e in 14 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Acer's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #40843e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40843e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.59:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40843e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #40843e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/40843e-a2bea4-944edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?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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