Color
#4ca495
#4ca495rgb(76, 164, 149)hsl(170, 37%, 47%)oklch(0.66 0.088 180.8)Colors that go with #4ca495
Charcoal, Burlywood and Copper 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 #4ca495: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #4ca495 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4ca495: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4ca495 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #4ca495 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4ca495: 8 real palettes, including Peacock and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4ca495, as that palette's text colour.
Pale Violet Red #db7093
complementaryPale Violet Red sits directly opposite #4ca495 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 #4ca495
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4ca495 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.05:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4ca495 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #4ca495 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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