Color
#497970
#497970rgb(73, 121, 112)hsl(169, 25%, 38%)oklch(0.539 0.054 180.9)Colors that go with #497970
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt Blue 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 #497970: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #497970, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #497970: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #497970: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Wellness, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #497970 in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #497970: 10 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #497970: 5 real palettes, including Newsprint and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sienna #a0522d
split-complementshippedSienna is a split-complement of #497970: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #497970
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #497970 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.25:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #497970 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #497970 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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