Color

#4a405e

#4a405e
hex#4a405e
rgbrgb(74, 64, 94)
hslhsl(260, 19%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.394 0.051 299.3)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0593

Colors that go with #4a405e

Teal, Blue and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#545e40

#40455e · #59405e

#5e4a40 · #405e4a

Split-complementary

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#5e5940 · #455e40

#5e4045 · #545e40 · #405e59

Contrast

#4a405e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.61:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6d9c as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #9d92b5 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4a405e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4a405e
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 #4a405e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4a405e-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md