Color

#4988bc

#4988bc
hex#4988bc
rgbrgb(73, 136, 188)
hslhsl(207, 46%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.103 245.5)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2266

Colors that go with #4988bc

Charcoal, Copper and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bc7c49

#49bcb6 · #494ebc

#bc4988 · #88bc49

Split-complementary

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#bc494e · #bcb649

#b649bc · #bc7c49 · #4ebc49

Contrast

#4988bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.8:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #3f7bab as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #2f5b7f as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #669bc7 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4988bc 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

#4988bc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4988bc
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #4988bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4988bc-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md