Color
#480538
#480538rgb(72, 5, 56)hsl(314, 87%, 15%)oklch(0.276 0.111 340.5)Colors that go with #480538
Charcoal, Crimson and Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #480538: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #480538's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #480538 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #480538 in 5 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped9 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system put Blue beside #480538, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #480538: 5 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #480538, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #480538
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #480538 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.35:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #480538 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
#480538 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #480538 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/480538-c19fb5-7ccb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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