Color

#494f74

#494f74
hex#494f74
rgbrgb(73, 79, 116)
hslhsl(232, 23%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.438 0.061 276.5)
Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.0827

Colors that go with #494f74

Steel Blue, Cadet Blue and Denim 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 #494f74

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#746e49

#496474 · #594974

#74494e · #4e7449

Split-complementary

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#745949 · #647449

#744964 · #746e49 · #497459

Contrast

#494f74 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.91:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c73a3 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #8e94b8 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494f74 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 #494f74
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 #494f74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494f74-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md