Color
#492ad5
#492ad5rgb(73, 42, 213)hsl(251, 67%, 50%)oklch(0.455 0.239 279.4)Colors that go with #492ad5
Charcoal, Sea Green and Cornflower 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #492ad5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #492ad5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #492ad5: 7 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #492ad5 in 10 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #492ad5: 7 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Pixar's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #492ad5: 8 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Cargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #492ad5: 6 real palettes, including 3M's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #492ad5 in 5 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Spotify's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #492ad5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #492ad5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.15:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.58:1 | 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 #492ad5 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
#492ad5 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 #492ad5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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