Color
#4b490c
#4b490crgb(75, 73, 12)hsl(58, 72%, 17%)oklch(0.395 0.078 107.5)Colors that go with #4b490c
Copper, Crimson and Saddle Brown 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.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4b490c: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Desert Road.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4b490c in 4 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #4b490c: 5 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #4b490c: 9 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #4b490c: 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Mint Chip, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #4b490c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #4b490c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #4b490c wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #4b490c reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #4b490c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4b490c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.26:1 | 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 #4b490c 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
#4b490c 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 #4b490c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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