Color

#456cd9

#456cd9
hex#456cd9
rgbrgb(69, 108, 217)
hslhsl(224, 66%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.562 0.173 266.1)
Closest name: Royal Blue (#4169e1)Relative luminance 0.17

Colors that go with #456cd9

Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#d9b145

#45b6d9 · #6745d9

#d9456c · #6cd945

Split-complementary

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#d96745 · #b6d945

#d945b6 · #d9b145 · #45d967

Contrast

#456cd9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #274fbe as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #4970da as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7894e3 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #456cd9 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

#456cd9 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #456cd9
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #456cd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/456cd9-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md