Color

#490daf

#490daf
hex#490daf
rgbrgb(73, 13, 175)
hslhsl(262, 86%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.391 0.216 287.4)
Closest name: Galactic Highway (#3311bb)Relative luminance 0.048

Colors that go with #490daf

Royal Blue, Blue and Midnight 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#74af0d

#0d23af · #9a0daf

#af490d · #0daf49

Split-complementary

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#af9a0d · #23af0d

#af0d23 · #74af0d · #0daf9a

Contrast

#490daf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.71:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b50f2 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #aa7ff5 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.02:1)

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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490daf
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 #490daf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490daf-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md