Color
#490a4c
#490a4crgb(73, 10, 76)hsl(297, 77%, 17%)oklch(0.295 0.123 326.1)Colors that go with #490a4c
Blue, 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.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #490a4c in 4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #490a4c in 7 real palettes, including Heinz's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #490a4c in 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Sorbet, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #490a4c in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and Rotten Tomatoes's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #490a4c in 4 real palettes, including Campus and Bloomberg's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #490a4c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #490a4c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Light Pink #ffb6c1
shippedLight Pink is paired with #490a4c in 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Sorbet, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #490a4c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #490a4c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.67:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.43:1 | 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 #490a4c 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
#490a4c reads as cool, 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 #490a4c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/490a4c-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?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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