Color
#494e31
#494e31rgb(73, 78, 49)hsl(70, 23%, 25%)oklch(0.411 0.046 116.4)Colors that go with #494e31
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
shipped6 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #494e31, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #494e31, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #494e31, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #494e31: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #494e31: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #494e31 in 6 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Chime's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #494e31 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #494e31 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementarySlate Blue sits directly opposite #494e31 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #494e31
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494e31 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.42:1 | 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 #494e31 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
#494e31 reads as muted, 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 #494e31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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