Color

#48402e

#48402e
hex#48402e
rgbrgb(72, 64, 46)
hslhsl(42, 22%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.374 0.031 86.8)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0524

Colors that go with #48402e

Dark Olive Green, Teal and Steel Blue 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 #48402e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e3548

#48332e · #42482e

#2e4840 · #402e48

Split-complementary

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#2e4248 · #332e48

#2e4833 · #2e3548 · #482e42

Contrast

#48402e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.25:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837554 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #a49470 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #48402e 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

#48402e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #48402e
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 #48402e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/48402e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md