Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#495a7e
#495a7e
hex
#495a7ergb
rgb(73, 90, 126)hsl
hsl(221, 27%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.469 0.062 264.6)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.1024
Colors that go with #495a7e
Sea Green, Steel Blue 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #495a7e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #495a7e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #495a7e, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #495a7e: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #495a7e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #495a7e in 15 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #495a7e: 16 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #495a7e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #495a7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495a7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.05:1 | 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 #495a7e 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 #495a7e
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 #495a7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/495a7e-9ca4c4-df6b4e-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