Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#4a587d
#4a587d
hex
#4a587drgb
rgb(74, 88, 125)hsl
hsl(224, 26%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.464 0.063 268)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.0992
Colors that go with #4a587d
Sea Green, Steel Blue and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #4a587d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #4a587d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #4a587d, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #4a587d: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4a587d in 14 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4a587d: 16 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #4a587d: 6 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #4a587d: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #4a587d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4a587d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.98:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4a587d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4a587d
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #4a587d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4a587d-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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