Color

#496d9c

#496d9c
hex#496d9c
rgbrgb(73, 109, 156)
hslhsl(214, 36%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.528 0.085 255.5)
Closest name: Blue Triumph (#4376ab)Relative luminance 0.1475

Colors that go with #496d9c

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

Open in tool →

#9c7849

#49979c · #4f499c

#9c496d · #6d9c49

Split-complementary

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#9c4f49 · #979c49

#9c4997 · #9c7849 · #499c4f

Contrast

#496d9c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.32:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3c5a80 as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.95:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5077aa as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #7b99c1 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #496d9c 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

#496d9c reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #496d9c
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 #496d9c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/496d9c-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md