Color
#495b2a
#495b2argb(73, 91, 42)hsl(82, 37%, 26%)oklch(0.444 0.076 126)Colors that go with #495b2a
Charcoal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #495b2a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #495b2a, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #495b2a in 5 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Gemstone, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #495b2a: 6 real palettes, including Xbox's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #495b2a: 8 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #495b2a in 17 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #495b2a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #495b2a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #495b2a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495b2a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.46:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.81:1 | 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 #495b2a 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
#495b2a reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #495b2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/495b2a-b0bea2-4e5fdf-222d1f-f1f0e9?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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