Color

#4542e0

#4542e0
hex#4542e0
rgbrgb(69, 66, 224)
hslhsl(241, 72%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.494 0.23 274.7)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.1054

Colors that go with #4542e0

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 #4542e0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#dee042

#428fe0 · #9442e0

#e04542 · #42e045

Split-complementary

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#e09442 · #8fe042

#e0428f · #dee042 · #42e094

Contrast

#4542e0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #413ee0 as the text (7.02:1)
Aaon black
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6865e6 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #8f8dec as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4542e0 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#4542e0 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4542e0
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 #4542e0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4542e0-a19cc4-df9b4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md