Color
#409bd4
#409bd4rgb(64, 155, 212)hsl(203, 63%, 54%)oklch(0.66 0.12 239.8)Colors that go with #409bd4
Charcoal, Bronze 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 #409bd4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Bronze #cd7f32
complementaryshippedBronze sits directly opposite #409bd4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #409bd4 in 8 real palettes, including Heatwave and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #409bd4 in 4 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #409bd4 in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Hershey's's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #409bd4 in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #409bd4 in 4 real palettes, including Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system and Remix's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #409bd4 in 11 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #409bd4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #409bd4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.06:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #409bd4 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
#409bd4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #409bd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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