Color

#4e497e

#4e497e
hex#4e497e
rgbrgb(78, 73, 126)
hslhsl(246, 27%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.435 0.086 286.6)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0789

Colors that go with #4e497e

Steel Blue, Blue and Crimson 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.

Real palettes that use #4e497e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#797e49

#495e7e · #69497e

#7e4e49 · #497e4e

Split-complementary

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#7e6949 · #5e7e49

#7e495e · #797e49 · #497e69

Contrast

#4e497e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.15:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #736dab as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #9691c0 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e497e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e497e
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #4e497e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e497e-a59cc4-dfa74e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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