Color

#42266d

#42266d
hex#42266d
rgbrgb(66, 38, 109)
hslhsl(264, 48%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.344 0.118 298.1)
Closest name: Fading Horizon (#442266)Relative luminance 0.0365

Colors that go with #42266d

Charcoal, Royal 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

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#516d26

#262e6d · #66266d

#6d4326 · #266d43

Split-complementary

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#6d6626 · #2e6d26

#6d262e · #516d26 · #266d66

Contrast

#42266d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.14:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8a60c7 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #a88ad6 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42266d 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

#42266d reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42266d
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 #42266d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42266d-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md