Color
#38245c
#38245crgb(56, 36, 92)hsl(261, 44%, 25%)oklch(0.316 0.097 297)Colors that go with #38245c
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Royal 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 #38245c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #38245c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #38245c's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #38245c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #38245c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #38245c in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Southwest Airlines's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #38245c, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #38245c, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #38245c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38245c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.58:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #38245c 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
#38245c reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #38245c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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