Color

#473d4c

#473d4c
hex#473d4c
rgbrgb(71, 61, 76)
hslhsl(280, 11%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.376 0.028 314.5)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.052

Colors that go with #473d4c

Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #473d4c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#424c3d

#403d4c · #4c3d4a

#4c473d · #3d4c47

Split-complementary

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#4a4c3d · #3d4c40

#4c403d · #424c3d · #3d4a4c

Contrast

#473d4c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.3:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #826f8b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9f91a6 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #473d4c 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

#473d4c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #473d4c
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 #473d4c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/473d4c-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md