Color

#496aa7

#496aa7
hex#496aa7
rgbrgb(73, 106, 167)
hslhsl(219, 39%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.528 0.104 261.9)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1451

Colors that go with #496aa7

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a78649

#4999a7 · #5749a7

#a7496a · #6aa749

Split-complementary

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#a75749 · #99a749

#a74999 · #a78649 · #49a757

Contrast

#496aa7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3d588a as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black
3.9:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5576b4 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #7c96c5 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #496aa7 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

Fonts for this mood

#496aa7 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #496aa7
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 #496aa7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/496aa7-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md