Color
#485d41
#485d41rgb(72, 93, 65)hsl(105, 18%, 31%)oklch(0.453 0.051 138)Colors that go with #485d41
Slate Blue, Champagne and Copper 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.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #485d41 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #485d41 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #485d41 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #485d41 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #485d41 in 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #485d41 in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust is paired with #485d41 in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Trailhead, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #485d41 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #485d41 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #485d41
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #485d41 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.2:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.92:1 | 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 #485d41 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #485d41 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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