Color

#00496b

#00496b
hex#00496b
rgbrgb(0, 73, 107)
hslhsl(199, 100%, 21%)
oklchoklch(0.385 0.085 237.6)
Closest name: Raging Thunderstorm (#004f63)Relative luminance 0.0583

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b2200

#006b57 · #00146b

#6b0049 · #496b00

Split-complementary

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#6b0014 · #6b5700

#57006b · #6b2200 · #146b00

Contrast

#00496b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #007db8 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #00a0eb as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #00496b 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

#00496b reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #00496b
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #00496b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/00496b-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md