Color
#45487d
#45487drgb(69, 72, 125)hsl(237, 29%, 38%)oklch(0.425 0.087 279.5)Colors that go with #45487d
Steel Blue, Blue and Crimson 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #45487d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #45487d in 4 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #45487d in 9 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Amazon's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #45487d in 10 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #45487d in 11 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #45487d in 7 real palettes, including First Snow and Glacier, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #45487d in 13 real palettes, including Motorola's brand system and Zoom's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #45487d: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #45487d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #45487d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.48:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.48:1 | 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 #45487d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #45487d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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