Color
#4a96ed
#4a96edrgb(74, 150, 237)hsl(212, 82%, 61%)oklch(0.665 0.15 253.6)Colors that go with #4a96ed
Charcoal, Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4a96ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4a96ed in 9 real palettes, including Heatwave and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system put Blue beside #4a96ed, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #4a96ed in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #4a96ed: 5 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Patreon's brand system.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4a96ed: 13 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
triadicshippedMedium Sea Green completes a triad with #4a96ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Kraken's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4a96ed, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #4a96ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4a96ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.05:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.88:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4a96ed 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
#4a96ed reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #4a96ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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