Color
#494b48
#494b48rgb(73, 75, 72)hsl(100, 2%, 29%)oklch(0.41 0.006 134.9)Colors that go with #494b48
Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #494b48, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #494b48, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #494b48, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #494b48: 7 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #494b48 in 5 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #494b48: 4 real palettes, including Lamborghini's brand system and Warp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #494b48: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #494b48 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #494b48
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494b48 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.81:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.38:1 | 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 #494b48 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
#494b48 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #494b48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/494b48-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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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