Color

#42482d

#42482d
hex#42482d
rgbrgb(66, 72, 45)
hslhsl(73, 23%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.388 0.044 118.7)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0598

Colors that go with #42482d

Sea Green, Slate Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #42482d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#332d48

#48402d · #35482d

#2d4248 · #482d42

Split-complementary

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#2d3548 · #402d48

#2d4840 · #332d48 · #482d35

Contrast

#42482d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.56:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707a4d as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #909d62 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42482d 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

#42482d reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42482d
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 #42482d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42482d-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md