Color

#492d2c

#492d2c
hex#492d2c
rgbrgb(73, 45, 44)
hslhsl(2, 25%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.331 0.042 21.8)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.0348

Colors that go with #492d2c

Sea Green, Sienna and Steel Blue 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 #492d2c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c4849

#492c3a · #493c2c

#2c492d · #2d2c49

Split-complementary

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#2c493c · #2c3a49

#3a492c · #2c4849 · #3c2c49

Contrast

#492d2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.39:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16563 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #b88b89 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #492d2c 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

#492d2c reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #492d2c
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 #492d2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/492d2c-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md