Color

#499bda

#499bda
hex#499bda
rgbrgb(73, 155, 218)
hslhsl(206, 66%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.666 0.123 244.5)
Closest name: Blue Bay (#619ad6)Relative luminance 0.2992

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#da8849

#49dad0 · #4953da

#da499b · #9bda49

Split-complementary

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#da4953 · #dad049

#d049da · #da8849 · #53da49

Contrast

#499bda as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #267aba as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #1d5c8c as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #4d9ddb as the text (7.16:1)

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

#499bda reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

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

tool url/palettes/new/499bda-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md