Color

#401b79

#401b79
hex#401b79
rgbrgb(64, 27, 121)
hslhsl(264, 64%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.337 0.148 295.1)
Closest name: Explorer of the Galaxies (#3a1f76)Relative luminance 0.0325

Colors that go with #401b79

Charcoal, Royal Blue and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#53791b

#1b2479 · #701b79

#79401b · #1b7940

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#79701b · #24791b

#791b24 · #53791b · #1b7970

Contrast

#401b79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.72:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c58da as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #ac86e4 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #401b79 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

#401b79 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #401b79
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 #401b79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/401b79-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md