Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#4e3c41
#4e3c41
hex
#4e3c41rgb
rgb(78, 60, 65)hsl
hsl(343, 13%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.377 0.026 360)Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0523
Colors that go with #4e3c41
Blue, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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
shipped9 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #4e3c41, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #4e3c41, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #4e3c41 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #4e3c41: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #4e3c41, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4e3c41: 8 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Bramble.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4e3c41 in 11 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #4e3c41 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #4e3c41
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e3c41 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.26:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.05:1 | 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 #4e3c41 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
#4e3c41 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e3c41
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 #4e3c41 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4e3c41-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?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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