Color

#42247b

#42247b
hex#42247b
rgbrgb(66, 36, 123)
hslhsl(261, 55%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.353 0.139 293.9)
Closest name: Explorer of the Galaxies (#3a1f76)Relative luminance 0.0385

Colors that go with #42247b

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 →

#5c7b24

#24317b · #6d247b

#7b4224 · #247b42

Split-complementary

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#7b6d24 · #317b24

#7b2431 · #5c7b24 · #247b6d

Contrast

#42247b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.86:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8861d1 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #a688dd as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42247b 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

#42247b reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42247b
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 #42247b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42247b-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md