Color

#499dbc

#499dbc
hex#499dbc
rgbrgb(73, 157, 188)
hslhsl(196, 46%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.657 0.093 225.2)
Closest name: Canadian Tuxedo (#579aca)Relative luminance 0.2916

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc6749

#49bca1 · #4963bc

#bc499d · #9dbc49

Split-complementary

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#bc4963 · #bca149

#a149bc · #bc6749 · #63bc49

Contrast

#499dbc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #387f99 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #295d70 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.83:1passpassfail

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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/499dbc-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md