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Color
#494e5b
#494e5b
hex
#494e5brgb
rgb(73, 78, 91)hsl
hsl(223, 11%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.424 0.023 268.8)Closest name: Abyssal (#404c57)Relative luminance 0.0762
Colors that go with #494e5b
Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #494e5b, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #494e5b: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #494e5b, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #494e5b: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #494e5b in 6 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #494e5b: 8 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #494e5b in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Disney's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #494e5b was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #494e5b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494e5b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.52:1 | 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 #494e5b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #494e5b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #494e5b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/494e5b-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md