Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#4c8a81
#4c8a81
hex
#4c8a81rgb
rgb(76, 138, 129)hsl
hsl(171, 29%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.589 0.066 183.6)Closest name: Highlands (#449084)Relative luminance 0.213
Colors that go with #4c8a81
Charcoal, Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4c8a81: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #4c8a81 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #4c8a81, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4c8a81 in 8 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Diner, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4c8a81: 10 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #4c8a81 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Paramount+'s brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4c8a81, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Estate put Peru beside #4c8a81, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #4c8a81
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4c8a81 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.99:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c8a81 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 #4c8a81
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 #4c8a81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4c8a81-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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