Color
#495e40
#495e40rgb(73, 94, 64)hsl(102, 19%, 31%)oklch(0.456 0.054 136.5)Colors that go with #495e40
Slate Blue, Champagne and Copper 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.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #495e40 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #495e40, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #495e40: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #495e40 in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #495e40: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #495e40 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #495e40 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Clerk's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #495e40 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #495e40 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #495e40
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495e40 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.1:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.96:1 | 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 #495e40 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #495e40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/495e40-a7bea2-6e4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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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