Color
#454497
#454497rgb(69, 68, 151)hsl(241, 38%, 43%)oklch(0.434 0.132 279.9)Colors that go with #454497
Charcoal, Steel Blue and 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 #454497: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #454497's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #454497, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #454497: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #454497 in 12 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #454497: 5 real palettes, including Datadog's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped18 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #454497, as that palette's text colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #454497 in 5 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #454497
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Contrast
| #454497 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.31:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.53:1 | 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 #454497 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
#454497 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 #454497 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/454497-a19cc4-df9b4e-261f2d-e9edf1?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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