Color

#497ddf

#497ddf
hex#497ddf
rgbrgb(73, 125, 223)
hslhsl(219, 70%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.603 0.159 261.8)
Closest name: Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee)Relative luminance 0.2141

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dfaa49

#49c8df · #5f49df

#df497d · #7ddf49

Split-complementary

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#df5f49 · #c8df49

#df49c8 · #dfaa49 · #49df5f

Contrast

#497ddf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.98:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #3871dc as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #1f53b2 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.28:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6c96e5 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 #497ddf 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/497ddf-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md