Color
#495809
#495809rgb(73, 88, 9)hsl(71, 81%, 19%)oklch(0.432 0.099 120.7)Colors that go with #495809
Charcoal, Sage Green and Taupe 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #495809: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #495809: 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #495809 in 14 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #495809 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #495809: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #495809: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #495809, as the surface under it.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #495809 in 3 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Mint Modern, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #495809
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495809 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.83:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.68:1 | 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 #495809 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
#495809 reads as vivid, 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 #495809 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/495809-b6bea2-4e7adf-252d1f-f1efe9?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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