Color
#480d77
#480d77rgb(72, 13, 119)hsl(273, 80%, 26%)oklch(0.332 0.16 303)Colors that go with #480d77
Crimson, Olive Green and Charcoal 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.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #480d77 in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #480d77 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #480d77: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #480d77: 3 real palettes, including Purina Pro Plan's brand system and Zillow's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #480d77: 3 real palettes, including Slack's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #480d77's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #480d77 in 3 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including dbt Labs's brand system and Harley-Davidson's brand system put Tomato beside #480d77, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #480d77
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #480d77 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.6:1 | 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 #480d77 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
#480d77 reads as cool, 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 #480d77 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/480d77-b79cc4-c4cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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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