Color

#3e279b

#3e279b
hex#3e279b
rgbrgb(62, 39, 155)
hslhsl(252, 60%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.383 0.176 283.4)
Closest name: Bluebell (#333399)Relative luminance 0.0484

Colors that go with #3e279b

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#849b27

#274a9b · #78279b

#9b3e27 · #279b3e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#9b7827 · #4a9b27

#9b274a · #849b27 · #279b78

Contrast

#3e279b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b64d8 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #9a89e1 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3e279b 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

#3e279b reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e279b
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 #3e279b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3e279b-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md