Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#48323a
#48323a
hex
#48323argb
rgb(72, 50, 58)hsl
hsl(338, 18%, 24%)oklch
oklch(0.345 0.034 355.4)Closest name: After Dark (#3c3535)Relative luminance 0.0396
Colors that go with #48323a
Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Sienna 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #48323a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #48323a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #48323a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #48323a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #48323a 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 #48323a in 5 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #48323a, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #48323a wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #48323a reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #48323a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #48323a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.71:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.79:1 | 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 #48323a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#48323a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #48323a
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #48323a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/48323a-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?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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