Color
#48176d
#48176drgb(72, 23, 109)hsl(274, 65%, 26%)oklch(0.332 0.14 305.9)Colors that go with #48176d
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 text near-black for #48176d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #48176d in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #48176d: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #48176d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #48176d'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 #48176d in 3 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and American Eagle'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 #48176d, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #48176d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #48176d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #48176d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.97:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.62:1 | 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 #48176d 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
#48176d 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 #48176d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/48176d-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-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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