Color
#42849e
#42849ergb(66, 132, 158)hsl(197, 41%, 44%)oklch(0.581 0.078 226.3)Colors that go with #42849e
Charcoal, Copper and Cobalt 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 #42849e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #42849e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #42849e: 6 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #42849e in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #42849e: 15 real palettes, including Discover's brand system and Campus, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #42849e in 5 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Ledger Dark, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped11 real palettes, including Discover's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #42849e, as the lead colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #42849e in 4 real palettes, including Launch Orange and Substack's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #42849e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42849e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.03:1 | 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 #42849e 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
#42849e 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 #42849e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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