Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#493d2d
#493d2d
hex
#493d2drgb
rgb(73, 61, 45)hsl
hsl(34, 24%, 23%)oklch
oklch(0.368 0.031 74.6)Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0494
Colors that go with #493d2d
Dark Olive Green, Teal 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #493d2d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #493d2d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #493d2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #493d2d, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #493d2d, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #493d2d in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #493d2d: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #493d2d wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #493d2d reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #493d2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #493d2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.56:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493d2d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#493d2d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #493d2d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #493d2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/493d2d-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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