Color

#4c8aae

#4c8aae
hex#4c8aae
rgbrgb(76, 138, 174)
hslhsl(202, 39%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.084 235.9)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2277

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae704c

#4caea1 · #4c59ae

#ae4c8a · #8aae4c

Split-complementary

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#ae4c59 · #aea14c

#a14cae · #ae704c · #59ae4c

Contrast

#4c8aae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #447c9c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #335d75 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.55:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #679dbc as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c8aae 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

#4c8aae reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4c8aae
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 #4c8aae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4c8aae-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md