Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#4a595e
#4a595e
hex
#4a595ergb
rgb(74, 89, 94)hsl
hsl(195, 12%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.453 0.02 220)Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0941
Colors that go with #4a595e
Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #4a595e, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #4a595e, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #4a595e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #4a595e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4a595e: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Puma's brand system and Cider put Dark Goldenrod beside #4a595e, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4a595e: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #4a595e was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #4a595e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4a595e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.88:1 | 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 #4a595e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4a595e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #4a595e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4a595e-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md