Color

#493c46

#493c46
hex#493c46
rgbrgb(73, 60, 70)
hslhsl(314, 10%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.374 0.024 334.2)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0509

Colors that go with #493c46

Blue, Blush Pink 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 #493c46

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3c493f

#453c49 · #493c3f

#46493c · #3c4649

Split-complementary

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#3f493c · #3c4945

#49453c · #3c493f · #3c3f49

Contrast

#493c46 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.41:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #876e81 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #a592a1 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493c46 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

#493c46 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #493c46
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 #493c46 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/493c46-c19fb5-7ccb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md