Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#4e3931
#4e3931
hex
#4e3931rgb
rgb(78, 57, 49)hsl
hsl(17, 23%, 25%)oklch
oklch(0.366 0.033 41.8)Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0477
Colors that go with #4e3931
Steel Blue, Teal and 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #4e3931: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #4e3931 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #4e3931, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #4e3931, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #4e3931 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #4e3931: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4e3931: 10 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Bakery.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #4e3931 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #4e3931 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #4e3931
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e3931 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.95:1 | 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 #4e3931 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
#4e3931 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e3931
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 #4e3931 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4e3931-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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