Color

#493e56

#493e56
hex#493e56
rgbrgb(73, 62, 86)
hslhsl(267, 16%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.385 0.042 305.4)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0553

Colors that go with #493e56

Sea Green, Teal and Dark Olive Green 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

Open in tool →

#4b563e

#3e3f56 · #553e56

#56493e · #3e5649

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#56553e · #3f563e

#563e3f · #4b563e · #3e5655

Contrast

#493e56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.97:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #806e96 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #9f92b0 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493e56 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

#493e56 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #493e56
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 #493e56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/493e56-b39cc4-dfda4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?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