Color

#494c48

#494c48
hex#494c48
rgbrgb(73, 76, 72)
hslhsl(105, 3%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.412 0.008 137.8)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0705

Colors that go with #494c48

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.

Real palettes that use #494c48

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4b484c

#4b4c48 · #484c49

#48494c · #4c4849

Split-complementary

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#49484c · #4c484b

#484b4c · #4b484c · #4c4948

Contrast

#494c48 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.71:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71766f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #929791 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494c48 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

#494c48 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #494c48
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 #494c48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494c48-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md