Color
#404996
#404996rgb(64, 73, 150)hsl(234, 40%, 42%)oklch(0.44 0.125 275)Colors that go with #404996
Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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 #404996: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #404996 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #404996's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #404996, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #404996 in 14 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #404996: 4 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Apple's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #404996: 6 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped20 real palettes, including First Snow and Panasonic's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #404996, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #404996
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #404996 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #404996 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
#404996 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #404996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/404996-9d9cc4-df8a4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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