Color
#494ffd
#494ffdrgb(73, 79, 253)hsl(238, 98%, 64%)oklch(0.542 0.251 272.8)Colors that go with #494ffd
Charcoal, Sea Green 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 #494ffd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #494ffd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #494ffd in 6 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Headspace's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #494ffd in 5 real palettes, including Nivea's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #494ffd in 7 real palettes, including Toyota's brand system and Coinbase's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #494ffd in 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Square's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #494ffd in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and Discord'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 #494ffd in 4 real palettes, including Clerk's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #494ffd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #494ffd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.82:1 | 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 #494ffd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#494ffd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #494ffd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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