Color
#4e5520
#4e5520rgb(78, 85, 32)hsl(68, 45%, 23%)oklch(0.431 0.076 116)Colors that go with #4e5520
Charcoal, Sage Green and Blue Violet 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 body-text near-black for #4e5520: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #4e5520: 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryBlue Violet sits directly opposite #4e5520 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #4e5520: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #4e5520, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #4e5520, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4e5520: 3 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #4e5520 in 3 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and CircleCI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #4e5520
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e5520 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.94:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.64:1 | 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 #4e5520 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
#4e5520 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 #4e5520 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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