Color

#7e494d

#7e494d
hex#7e494d
rgbrgb(126, 73, 77)
hslhsl(355, 27%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.469 0.072 15.4)
Closest name: Bigfoot (#715145)Relative luminance 0.0974

Colors that go with #7e494d

Teal, Champagne and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #7e494d

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#497e7a

#7e4968 · #7e5f49

#4d7e49 · #494d7e

Split-complementary

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#497e5f · #49687e

#687e49 · #497e7a · #5f497e

Contrast

#7e494d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a66469 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #bc8a8f as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #7e494d 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

#7e494d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #7e494d
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #7e494d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/7e494d-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md