Color
#494d92
#494d92rgb(73, 77, 146)hsl(237, 33%, 43%)oklch(0.452 0.111 278.5)Colors that go with #494d92
Charcoal, Steel Blue and 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 #494d92: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #494d92's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #494d92 in 4 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Pixar's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #494d92 in 9 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #494d92 in 5 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #494d92 in 13 real palettes, including First Snow and FIFA'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 #494d92 in 5 real palettes, including Tumblr's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #494d92 in 13 real palettes, including Motorola's brand system and Carrefour's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #494d92
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494d92 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.61:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.76:1 | 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 #494d92 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #494d92 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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