Color

#495165

#495165
hex#495165
rgbrgb(73, 81, 101)
hslhsl(223, 16%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.436 0.035 267.9)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0824

Colors that go with #495165

Steel Blue, Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#655d49

#495f65 · #4f4965

#654951 · #516549

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#654f49 · #5f6549

#65495f · #655d49 · #49654f

Contrast

#495165 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.93:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697491 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8c95ab as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #495165 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 #495165
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 #495165 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/495165-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md