Color
#497bca
#497bcargb(73, 123, 202)hsl(217, 55%, 54%)oklch(0.586 0.133 259.2)Colors that go with #497bca
Charcoal, Sea Green and Copper 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 #497bca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #497bca — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #497bca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #497bca in 10 real palettes, including Wired's brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #497bca, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #497bca: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #497bca: 8 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and General Mills's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #497bca in 13 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #497bca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #497bca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.97:1 | 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 #497bca 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
#497bca reads as cool, modern. 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 #497bca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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