Color
#4497ca
#4497cargb(68, 151, 202)hsl(203, 56%, 53%)oklch(0.647 0.111 238.8)Colors that go with #4497ca
Charcoal, Amber and Denim 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 #4497ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4497ca in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Heatwave, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #4497ca in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #4497ca in 5 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #4497ca in 5 real palettes, including Launch Orange and Cursor's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #4497ca in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #4497ca in 8 real palettes, including Retool's brand system and Still Water, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Ochre #cc7722
complementaryOchre sits directly opposite #4497ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #4497ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4497ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.53:1 | 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 #4497ca 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
#4497ca 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 #4497ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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