Color

#490e42

#490e42
hex#490e42
rgbrgb(73, 14, 66)
hslhsl(307, 68%, 17%)
oklchoklch(0.291 0.109 333.3)
Closest name: Velvet Cosmos (#441144)Relative luminance 0.0212

Colors that go with #490e42

Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0e4915

#320e49 · #490e24

#42490e · #0e4249

Split-complementary

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#24490e · #0e4932

#49320e · #0e4915 · #0e2449

Contrast

#490e42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
14.74:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ce27ba as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #e265d3 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (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 #490e42 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

#490e42 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490e42
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 #490e42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490e42-c19fb9-89cb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md