Indigo SaaS
Open in tool →The dependable indigo-and-emerald B2B pairing: indigo for primary actions, emerald reserved for success states.
Color
#494ee4
#494ee4
hex
#494ee4rgb
rgb(73, 78, 228)hsl
hsl(238, 74%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.518 0.222 274.1)Closest name: Arcane Brew (#5260e1)Relative luminance 0.1247
Colors that go with #494ee4
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 #494ee4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #494ee4 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #494ee4 in 5 real palettes, including Walmart's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Signal's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #494ee4, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #494ee4: 7 real palettes, including NHL's brand system and Nivea's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #494ee4: 8 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #494ee4 in 12 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Toyota's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #494ee4: 5 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #494ee4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494ee4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.49:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494ee4 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
Fonts for this mood
#494ee4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #494ee4
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 #494ee4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/494ee4-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?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