Color

#490dc9

#490dc9
hex#490dc9
rgbrgb(73, 13, 201)
hslhsl(259, 88%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.421 0.242 282.7)
Closest name: Busty Blue (#3300cc)Relative luminance 0.0592

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8ec90d

#0d2fc9 · #a70dc9

#c9490d · #0dc949

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#c9a70d · #2fc90d

#c90d2f · #8ec90d · #0dc9a7

Contrast

#490dc9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.61:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8652f4 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #a782f7 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (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 #490dc9 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

#490dc9 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #490dc9
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 #490dc9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/490dc9-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md