Color

#494d2d

#494d2d
hex#494d2d
rgbrgb(73, 77, 45)
hslhsl(68, 26%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.408 0.05 114.4)
Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0691

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#322d4d

#4d412d · #394d2d

#2d494d · #4d2d49

Split-complementary

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#2d394d · #412d4d

#2d4d41 · #322d4d · #4d2d39

Contrast

#494d2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.81:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737a48 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #959d5c as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494d2d 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

#494d2d reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #494d2d
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #494d2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494d2d-b7bea2-4e81df-252d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md