Color

#490d2c

#490d2c
hex#490d2c
rgbrgb(73, 13, 44)
hslhsl(329, 70%, 17%)
oklchoklch(0.279 0.095 353.6)
Closest name: Blackberry (#43182f)Relative luminance 0.0189

Colors that go with #490d2c

Teal, Amber and Burlywood 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 #490d2c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0d4a2a

#490d4a · #4a0d0e

#2c4a0d · #0d2c4a

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#0e4a0d · #0d4a49

#4a490d · #0d4a2a · #0d0e4a

Contrast

#490d2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.25:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d92682 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e56caa as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8c8c8c (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #490d2c 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

#490d2c reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490d2c
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 #490d2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490d2c-c49cac-62cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md