Color

#490be5

#490be5
hex#490be5
rgbrgb(73, 11, 229)
hslhsl(257, 91%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.452 0.271 278.9)
Closest name: Overdue Blue (#4400ff)Relative luminance 0.0731

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7e50b

#0b3ae5 · #b60be5

#e5490b · #0be549

Split-complementary

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#e5b60b · #3ae50b

#e50b3a · #a7e50b · #0be5b6

Contrast

#490be5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.53:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8355f7 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a380f9 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #490be5 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

#490be5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490be5
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #490be5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490be5-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md