Color
#42498a
#42498argb(66, 73, 138)hsl(234, 35%, 40%)oklch(0.433 0.107 276.4)Colors that go with #42498a
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 #42498a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #42498a — 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 #42498a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #42498a, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #42498a: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #42498a in 12 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #42498a: 4 real palettes, including Datadog's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped19 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #42498a, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #42498a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42498a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.23:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.55:1 | 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 #42498a 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
#42498a 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 #42498a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/42498a-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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