Color
#490c4f
#490c4frgb(73, 12, 79)hsl(295, 74%, 18%)oklch(0.298 0.123 324)Colors that go with #490c4f
Blue, Cadet 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #490c4f, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #490c4f: 4 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #490c4f in 5 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #490c4f: 7 real palettes, including Heinz's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Volkswagen's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #490c4f, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #490c4f: 5 real palettes, including Macaron and Sorbet, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #490c4f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #490c4f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #490c4f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #490c4f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.49:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.45:1 | 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 #490c4f 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
#490c4f 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 #490c4f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/490c4f-c19fbf-9dcb62-2d1f28-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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