Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#4b4444
#4b4444
hex
#4b4444rgb
rgb(75, 68, 68)hsl
hsl(0, 5%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.394 0.01 17.6)Closest name: Black Panther (#424242)Relative luminance 0.0605
Colors that go with #4b4444
Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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
shipped9 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #4b4444, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #4b4444, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #4b4444, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4b4444: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Bramble.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4b4444 in 9 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4b4444: 9 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #4b4444 in 5 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Minecraft's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #4b4444 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #4b4444
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4b4444 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.5:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.21:1 | 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 #4b4444 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
Fonts for this mood
#4b4444 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4b4444
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 #4b4444 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4b4444-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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