Color
#40609c
#40609crgb(64, 96, 156)hsl(219, 42%, 43%)oklch(0.494 0.104 262)Colors that go with #40609c
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 #40609c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #40609c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #40609c in 7 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #40609c: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #40609c in 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #40609c: 4 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Light Coral #f08080
shippedDesigners have shipped Light Coral with #40609c: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Sentry's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #40609c in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Khan Academy's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #40609c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40609c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.23:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.37:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40609c 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
#40609c 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 #40609c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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