Color
#4e5b48
#4e5b48rgb(78, 91, 72)hsl(101, 12%, 32%)oklch(0.454 0.034 135.8)Colors that go with #4e5b48
Slate Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet 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.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #4e5b48 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
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #4e5b48 in 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #4e5b48 in 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #4e5b48 in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #4e5b48 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4e5b48 in 5 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #4e5b48 in 9 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #4e5b48 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #4e5b48 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #4e5b48
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e5b48 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.21:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.91:1 | 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 #4e5b48 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 #4e5b48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/4e5b48-a7bea2-6b4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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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