Color

#3a42e4

#3a42e4
hex#3a42e4
rgbrgb(58, 66, 228)
hslhsl(237, 76%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.491 0.238 271.5)
Closest name: Meteor Shower (#5533ff)Relative luminance 0.104

Colors that go with #3a42e4

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.

Real palettes that use #3a42e4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e4dc3a

#3a97e4 · #863ae4

#e43a42 · #42e43a

Split-complementary

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#e4863a · #97e43a

#e43a97 · #e4dc3a · #3ae486

Contrast

#3a42e4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #353ee3 as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6269ea as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #8a8fef as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3a42e4 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

#3a42e4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3a42e4
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 #3a42e4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3a42e4-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md