Color
#491cc4
#491cc4rgb(73, 28, 196)hsl(256, 75%, 44%)oklch(0.424 0.23 282.8)Colors that go with #491cc4
Charcoal, Cornflower 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #491cc4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #491cc4 in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Qualcomm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #491cc4 in 4 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
analogousshippedDenim is #491cc4's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #491cc4 in 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Bank of America's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #491cc4 in 4 real palettes, including Intercom's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #491cc4 in 9 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and NHL's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #491cc4 in 8 real palettes, including Datadog's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #491cc4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #491cc4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.35:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.25:1 | 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 #491cc4 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
#491cc4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #491cc4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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