Color
#490342
#490342rgb(73, 3, 66)hsl(306, 92%, 15%)oklch(0.282 0.122 333.2)Colors that go with #490342
Charcoal, Denim and Powder 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 body-text near-black for #490342: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #490342: 7 real palettes, including Heinz's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #490342: 4 real palettes, including Sorbet and Opera's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #490342 in 4 real palettes, including Rotten Tomatoes's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementarySea Green sits directly opposite #490342 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #490342: 3 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralshippedCream is the surface #490342 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #490342 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #490342 in 3 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Pinterest's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #490342
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #490342 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.27:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.37:1 | 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 #490342 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
#490342 reads as warm, vivid, dark. 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 #490342 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/490342-c19fb9-8acb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?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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