Color

#499bbc

#499bbc
hex#499bbc
rgbrgb(73, 155, 188)
hslhsl(197, 46%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.093 227.2)
Closest name: Canadian Tuxedo (#579aca)Relative luminance 0.2849

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc6949

#49bca3 · #4961bc

#bc499b · #9bbc49

Split-complementary

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#bc4961 · #bca349

#a349bc · #bc6949 · #61bc49

Contrast

#499bbc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #387d99 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #2b5f73 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.7:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #509fbe as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #499bbc 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

#499bbc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #499bbc
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 #499bbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/499bbc-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md