Color

#3838dc

#3838dc
hex#3838dc
rgbrgb(56, 56, 220)
hslhsl(240, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.468 0.239 272.3)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0884

Colors that go with #3838dc

Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dcdc38

#388adc · #8a38dc

#dc3838 · #38dc38

Split-complementary

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#dc8a38 · #8adc38

#dc388a · #dcdc38 · #38dc8a

Contrast

#3838dc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6767e4 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #8e8eeb as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3838dc 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

#3838dc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3838dc
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 #3838dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3838dc-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md