Color

#49504a

#49504a
hex#49504a
rgbrgb(73, 80, 74)
hslhsl(129, 5%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.423 0.013 149.6)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0765

Colors that go with #49504a

Blue, Cadet Blue 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 #49504a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#50494f

#4b5049 · #49504e

#4a4950 · #504a49

Split-complementary

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#4e4950 · #50494b

#494b50 · #50494f · #504e49

Contrast

#49504a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.3:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d786f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8f9990 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #49504a 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

#49504a reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #49504a
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 #49504a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/49504a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md