Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#4b6091
#4b6091
hex
#4b6091rgb
rgb(75, 96, 145)hsl
hsl(222, 32%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.494 0.083 265.8)Closest name: Admiral Blue (#50647f)Relative luminance 0.1191
Colors that go with #4b6091
Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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 #4b6091: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #4b6091 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #4b6091 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4b6091 in 7 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Pixar's brand system put Blue beside #4b6091, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #4b6091: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4b6091 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Costco's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #4b6091: 7 real palettes, including AT&T's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #4b6091
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4b6091 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.21:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.38:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4b6091 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 #4b6091
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 #4b6091 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4b6091-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md