Color

#493e12

#493e12
hex#493e12
rgbrgb(73, 62, 18)
hslhsl(48, 60%, 18%)
oklchoklch(0.366 0.063 95)
Closest name: Avocado Stone (#4e3e1f)Relative luminance 0.0491

Colors that go with #493e12

Royal Blue, Teal and 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 #493e12

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#121d49

#492312 · #394912

#12493e · #3e1249

Split-complementary

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#123949 · #231249

#124923 · #121d49 · #491239

Contrast

#493e12 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.6:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b7623 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #af952c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493e12 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

#493e12 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #493e12
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 #493e12 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/493e12-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md