Color
#488949
#488949rgb(72, 137, 73)hsl(121, 31%, 41%)oklch(0.57 0.117 144.2)Colors that go with #488949
Charcoal, Royal Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #488949: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #488949 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #488949: 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Riverbed, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #488949 in 7 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #488949: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #488949, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #488949 in 17 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Wellness, as that palette's text colour.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #488949 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #488949
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #488949 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.95:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #488949 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 #488949 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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