Color

#42493c

#42493c
hex#42493c
rgbrgb(66, 73, 60)
hslhsl(92, 10%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.395 0.023 130.6)
Closest name: Ancient Pine (#444b43)Relative luminance 0.0625

Colors that go with #42493c

Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #42493c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#433c49

#48493c · #3c493c

#3c4249 · #493c42

Split-complementary

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#3c3c49 · #493c48

#3c4849 · #433c49 · #493c3c

Contrast

#42493c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.33:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7963 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8e9a84 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42493c 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

#42493c reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42493c
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 #42493c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42493c-acbea2-564edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md