Color

#1a496b

#1a496b
hex#1a496b
rgbrgb(26, 73, 107)
hslhsl(205, 61%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.391 0.077 243.7)
Closest name: Black Turmeric (#2c4364)Relative luminance 0.0605

Colors that go with #1a496b

Royal Blue, Teal and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b3c1a

#1a6b64 · #1a216b

#6b1a49 · #496b1a

Split-complementary

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#6b1a21 · #6b641a

#641a6b · #6b3c1a · #216b1a

Contrast

#1a496b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2c7cb5 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4e9cd4 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1a496b 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

#1a496b reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1a496b
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 #1a496b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1a496b-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md