Color
#6497af
#6497afrgb(100, 151, 175)hsl(199, 32%, 54%)oklch(0.649 0.065 229.2)Colors that go with #6497af
Charcoal, Copper and Deep Sky 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 #6497af: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #6497af on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #6497af: 4 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6497af: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #6497af, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #6497af: 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #6497af in 7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #6497af in 22 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusk, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #6497af
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6497af as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.19:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.59:1 | 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 #6497af as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #6497af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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