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
#495d7e
#495d7e
hex
#495d7ergb
rgb(73, 93, 126)hsl
hsl(217, 27%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.476 0.059 260.2)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.1075
Colors that go with #495d7e
Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #495d7e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #495d7e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #495d7e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #495d7e in 4 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #495d7e, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #495d7e: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #495d7e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #495d7e in 16 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #495d7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #495d7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.67:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.15:1 | 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 #495d7e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #495d7e
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 #495d7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/495d7e-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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