Color

#42492d

#42492d
hex#42492d
rgbrgb(66, 73, 45)
hslhsl(75, 24%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.391 0.045 120)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0611

Colors that go with #42492d

Sea Green, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #42492d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#342d49

#49422d · #34492d

#2d4249 · #492d42

Split-complementary

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#2d3449 · #422d49

#2d4942 · #342d49 · #492d34

Contrast

#42492d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.45:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7b4c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8f9e61 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42492d 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

#42492d reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42492d
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 #42492d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42492d-b4bea2-4e70df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md