Color

#3f42de

#3f42de
hex#3f42de
rgbrgb(63, 66, 222)
hslhsl(239, 71%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.488 0.229 273.1)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.1023

Colors that go with #3f42de

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 #3f42de

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#dedc3f

#3f91de · #8c3fde

#de3f42 · #42de3f

Split-complementary

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#de8c3f · #91de3f

#de3f91 · #dedc3f · #3fde8c

Contrast

#3f42de as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3b3dde as the text (7.22:1)
Aaon black
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6668e5 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #8e8fec as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3f42de 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

#3f42de reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3f42de
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 #3f42de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3f42de-a09cc4-df964e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md