Color

#497cd4

#497cd4
hex#497cd4
rgbrgb(73, 124, 212)
hslhsl(218, 62%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.594 0.146 260.6)
Closest name: Blue Jay (#5588dd)Relative luminance 0.2059

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d4a149

#49c2d4 · #5c49d4

#d4497c · #7cd449

Split-complementary

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#d45c49 · #c2d449

#d449c2 · #d4a149 · #49d45c

Contrast

#497cd4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #3d73d1 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #2755a5 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #121212 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.12:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6e97dd as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #497cd4 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

#497cd4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #497cd4
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 #497cd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/497cd4-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md