Color

#497bee

#497bee
hex#497bee
rgbrgb(73, 123, 238)
hslhsl(222, 83%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.609 0.182 264.1)
Closest name: Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee)Relative luminance 0.2176

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eebd49

#49cdee · #6a49ee

#ee497b · #7bee49

Split-complementary

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#ee6a49 · #cdee49

#ee49cd · #eebd49 · #49ee6a

Contrast

#497bee as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.92:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #366dec as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #134bcd as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
5.35:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6e96f2 as the text (7.31:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #497bee 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

#497bee reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #497bee
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #497bee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/497bee-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md