Color
#4a490d
#4a490drgb(74, 73, 13)hsl(59, 70%, 17%)oklch(0.394 0.078 108.5)Colors that go with #4a490d
Blue, Copper 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #4a490d, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4a490d: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Desert Road.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4a490d in 5 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #4a490d in 5 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and CircleCI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #4a490d: 5 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #4a490d: 9 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #4a490d wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #4a490d reads softer on it than on pure white.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #4a490d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #4a490d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4a490d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.25:1 | 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 #4a490d 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
#4a490d reads as warm, vivid, dark. 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 #4a490d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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