Color
#4d501b
#4d501brgb(77, 80, 27)hsl(63, 50%, 21%)oklch(0.416 0.074 112.2)Colors that go with #4d501b
Blue, Orange Red and Royal 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 Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #4d501b, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #4d501b in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and HubSpot's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #4d501b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #4d501b: 4 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #4d501b: 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #4d501b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #4d501b, as the lead colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #4d501b wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #4d501b reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #4d501b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4d501b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.48:1 | 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 #4d501b 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
#4d501b reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #4d501b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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