Color

#42503a

#42503a
hex#42503a
rgbrgb(66, 80, 58)
hslhsl(98, 16%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.412 0.04 134.4)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.072

Colors that go with #42503a

Teal, 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 #42503a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#483a50

#4d503a · #3a503d

#3a4250 · #503a42

Split-complementary

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#3d3a50 · #503a4d

#3a4d50 · #483a50 · #503d3a

Contrast

#42503a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.61:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677c5a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #859c77 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #42503a 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

#42503a reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42503a
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 #42503a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42503a-a9bea2-644edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md