Color
#490837
#490837rgb(73, 8, 55)hsl(317, 80%, 16%)oklch(0.28 0.108 342.2)Colors that go with #490837
Charcoal, Crimson and Sea Green 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 #490837: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #490837's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #490837 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 #490837 in 6 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #490837, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #490837: 6 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #490837, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #490837
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #490837 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.37:1 | 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 #490837 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
#490837 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 #490837 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/490837-c19fb3-77cb62-2d1f23-efe9f1?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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