Color
#495cbc
#495cbcrgb(73, 92, 188)hsl(230, 46%, 51%)oklch(0.511 0.152 271.6)Colors that go with #495cbc
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 #495cbc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #495cbc — 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 #495cbc in 8 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped15 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #495cbc, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #495cbc: 7 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #495cbc in 19 real palettes, including Netflix's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #495cbc: 7 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #495cbc: 6 real palettes, including HashiCorp's brand system and Apple's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #495cbc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495cbc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.93:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.54:1 | 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 #495cbc as the background.
Brands using this color
- Campbell'saccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Coca-Colaaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Guinnessaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Heinzaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Hingeaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Jack Daniel'sprimary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- L'Oréalaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Maybellineaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Netflixaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Nikonsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Paramount+primary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Pixarsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Starlinksecondary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Ulta Beautysecondary · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Victoria's Secretaccent · #3860be · Δ1.98
- Warner Bros.secondary · #3860be · Δ1.98
Fonts for this mood
#495cbc reads as cool, modern. 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 #495cbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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