Color

#495ea2

#495ea2
hex#495ea2
rgbrgb(73, 94, 162)
hslhsl(226, 38%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.498 0.112 269.1)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1203

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a28d49

#498aa2 · #6049a2

#a2495e · #5ea249

Split-complementary

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#a26049 · #8aa249

#a2498a · #a28d49 · #49a260

Contrast

#495ea2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #425594 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
3.41:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d72b6 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8494c8 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #495ea2 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

#495ea2 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #495ea2
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #495ea2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/495ea2-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md