Color
#480e45
#480e45rgb(72, 14, 69)hsl(303, 67%, 17%)oklch(0.292 0.111 330.2)Colors that go with #480e45
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #480e45: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #480e45 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #480e45 in 4 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #480e45, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #480e45: 5 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #480e45: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Wellness, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #480e45 in 11 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #480e45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #480e45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.74:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #480e45 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
#480e45 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #480e45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/480e45-c19fbb-8fcb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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