Color

#49404a

#49404a
hex#49404a
rgbrgb(73, 64, 74)
hslhsl(294, 7%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.384 0.02 322.8)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0558

Colors that go with #49404a

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 #49404a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#414a40

#44404a · #4a4046

#4a4940 · #404a49

Split-complementary

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#464a40 · #404a44

#4a4440 · #414a40 · #40464a

Contrast

#49404a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.93:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817283 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #9f92a0 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #49404a 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

#49404a reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #49404a
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 #49404a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/49404a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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