Color

#490d09

#490d09
hex#490d09
rgbrgb(73, 13, 9)
hslhsl(4, 78%, 16%)
oklchoklch(0.269 0.091 28.6)
Closest name: Minotaur Hide (#4a120d)Relative luminance 0.0172

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#094449

#490925 · #492d09

#09490d · #0d0949

Split-complementary

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#09492d · #092549

#254909 · #094449 · #2d0949

Contrast

#490d09 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.62:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e3291c as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #ec7269 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #490d09 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#490d09 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490d09
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #490d09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490d09-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md