Color

#496f9c

#496f9c
hex#496f9c
rgbrgb(73, 111, 156)
hslhsl(213, 36%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.533 0.083 253.4)
Closest name: Blue Triumph (#4376ab)Relative luminance 0.1519

Colors that go with #496f9c

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 →

#9c7749

#49989c · #4e499c

#9c496f · #6f9c49

Split-complementary

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#9c4e49 · #989c49

#9c4998 · #9c7749 · #499c4e

Contrast

#496f9c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.2:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3b587d as the text (7.3:1)
Aaon black
4.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5078aa as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7898bf as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #496f9c 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

#496f9c reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #496f9c
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 #496f9c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/496f9c-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md