Color

#493638

#493638
hex#493638
rgbrgb(73, 54, 56)
hslhsl(354, 15%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.355 0.027 11.5)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0434

Colors that go with #493638

Amber, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #493638

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#364947

#493642 · #493e36

#384936 · #363849

Split-complementary

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#36493e · #364249

#424936 · #364947 · #3e3649

Contrast

#493638 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.24:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936c70 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #ad9092 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cccccc (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493638 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

#493638 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #493638
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 #493638 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/493638-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md