Color
#496ff8
#496ff8rgb(73, 111, 248)hsl(227, 93%, 63%)oklch(0.592 0.209 267.7)Colors that go with #496ff8
Charcoal, Crimson and Amber 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 #496ff8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #496ff8 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #496ff8 in 8 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Penpot's brand system and EA's brand system put Blue beside #496ff8, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #496ff8: 8 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and Carrefour's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #496ff8: 6 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #496ff8: 7 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #496ff8: 12 real palettes, including Fivetran blue's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #496ff8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #496ff8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.27:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #496ff8 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
#496ff8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #496ff8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/496ff8-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?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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