Color

#490d36

#490d36
hex#490d36
rgbrgb(73, 13, 54)
hslhsl(319, 70%, 17%)
oklchoklch(0.284 0.101 343.7)
Closest name: Velvet Cosmos (#441144)Relative luminance 0.0197

Colors that go with #490d36

Charcoal, Crimson and Teal 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 #490d36

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0d4a20

#3f0d4a · #4a0d18

#364a0d · #0d364a

Split-complementary

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#184a0d · #0d4a3f

#4a3f0d · #0d4a20 · #0d184a

Contrast

#490d36 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.06:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d4259d as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #e56cbf as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #490d36 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

#490d36 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490d36
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 #490d36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490d36-c19fb2-74cb62-2d1f23-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md