Color

#49477b

#49477b
hex#49477b
rgbrgb(73, 71, 123)
hslhsl(242, 27%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.425 0.085 283.9)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0735

Colors that go with #49477b

Steel Blue, 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.

Real palettes that use #49477b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#797b47

#475f7b · #63477b

#7b4847 · #477b48

Split-complementary

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#7b6347 · #5f7b47

#7b475f · #797b47 · #477b63

Contrast

#49477b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7371ad as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #9291c0 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #49477b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #49477b
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 #49477b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/49477b-a29cc4-df9e4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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