Color

#498cbc

#498cbc
hex#498cbc
rgbrgb(73, 140, 188)
hslhsl(205, 46%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.617 0.1 242)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.238

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc7849

#49bcb2 · #4952bc

#bc498c · #8cbc49

Split-complementary

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#bc4952 · #bcb249

#b249bc · #bc7849 · #52bc49

Contrast

#498cbc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.65:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #3e7ca8 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #2f5d7f as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #639cc5 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #498cbc 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

#498cbc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #498cbc
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 #498cbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/498cbc-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md