Color

#4540dd

#4540dd
hex#4540dd
rgbrgb(69, 64, 221)
hslhsl(242, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.488 0.229 275.2)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.1015

Colors that go with #4540dd

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 #4540dd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#d8dd40

#408add · #9440dd

#dd4540 · #40dd45

Split-complementary

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#dd9440 · #8add40

#dd408a · #d8dd40 · #40dd94

Contrast

#4540dd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #413cdd as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6b67e4 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #918eeb as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4540dd 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

#4540dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4540dd
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 #4540dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4540dd-a29cc4-df9e4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md