Color
#4e736d
#4e736drgb(78, 115, 109)hsl(170, 19%, 38%)oklch(0.526 0.043 183.4)Colors that go with #4e736d
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4e736d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #4e736d, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #4e736d: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #4e736d: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4e736d in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4e736d: 10 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #4e736d: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Rose Gold #b76e79
complementaryRose Gold sits directly opposite #4e736d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #4e736d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e736d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.25:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e736d 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 #4e736d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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