Color

#040490

#040490
hex#040490
rgbrgb(4, 4, 144)
hslhsl(240, 95%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.3 0.202 265)
Closest name: darkblue (#00008b)Relative luminance 0.0213

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#909004

#044a90 · #4a0490

#900404 · #049004

Split-complementary

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#904a04 · #4a9004

#90044a · #909004 · #04904a

Contrast

#040490 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
14.73:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6060fb as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #8d8dfc as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #040490 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

#040490 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #040490
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 #040490 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/040490-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md