Color

#42482e

#42482e
hex#42482e
rgbrgb(66, 72, 46)
hslhsl(74, 22%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.389 0.042 119)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0599

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#342e48

#48412e · #35482e

#2e4248 · #482e42

Split-complementary

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#2e3548 · #412e48

#2e4841 · #342e48 · #482e35

Contrast

#42482e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f794e as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #8e9c63 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.1:1)

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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42482e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #42482e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42482e-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md