Color

#42402f

#42402f
hex#42402f
rgbrgb(66, 64, 47)
hslhsl(54, 17%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.368 0.028 102)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0503

Colors that go with #42402f

Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #42402f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2f3042

#42362f · #3a422f

#2f4240 · #402f42

Split-complementary

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#2f3a42 · #362f42

#2f4236 · #2f3042 · #422f3a

Contrast

#42402f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.47:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.01:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7757 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9c9773 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42402f 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

#42402f reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42402f
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 #42402f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42402f-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md