Color

#42456c

#42456c
hex#42456c
rgbrgb(66, 69, 108)
hslhsl(236, 24%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.406 0.065 279.7)
Closest name: Bonne Nuit (#3a4866)Relative luminance 0.065

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c6942

#42596c · #54426c

#6c4245 · #456c42

Split-complementary

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#6c5442 · #596c42

#6c4259 · #6c6942 · #426c54

Contrast

#42456c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e71a6 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9093bb as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42456c as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42456c
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #42456c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42456c-9e9cc4-df8f4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md