Color

darkslateblue

#483d8b
hex#483d8b
rgbrgb(72, 61, 139)
hslhsl(248, 39%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.414 0.125 286)
Relative luminance 0.0658

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#808a3d

#3d598a · #6e3d8a

#8a473d · #3d8a47

Split-complementary

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#8a6e3d · #598a3d

#8a3d59 · #808a3d · #3d8a6e

Contrast

darkslateblue as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #756abe as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #968ecd as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.07:1)

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

darkslateblue reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around darkslateblue
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #483d8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/483d8b-a69cc4-dfac4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md