Color
#491d68
#491d68rgb(73, 29, 104)hsl(275, 56%, 26%)oklch(0.336 0.127 307.8)Colors that go with #491d68
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 #491d68: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #491d68 in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #491d68: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #491d68: 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #491d68 in 4 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and American Eagle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #491d68 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #491d68: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #491d68: 3 real palettes, including Peacock's brand system and Blue Mono, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #491d68
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #491d68 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.66:1 | 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 #491d68 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
#491d68 reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #491d68 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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