Color

#498ce4

#498ce4
hex#498ce4
rgbrgb(73, 140, 228)
hslhsl(214, 74%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.638 0.149 256.1)
Closest name: Blue Jay (#5588dd)Relative luminance 0.2577

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e4a149

#49dae4 · #5349e4

#e4498c · #8ce449

Split-complementary

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#e45349 · #dae449

#e449da · #e4a149 · #49e453

Contrast

#498ce4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.41:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #2173de as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #1957a9 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.15:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5b97e6 as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #498ce4 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

#498ce4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #498ce4
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 #498ce4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/498ce4-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md