Color
#4a135e
#4a135ergb(74, 19, 94)hsl(284, 66%, 22%)oklch(0.318 0.13 315.2)Colors that go with #4a135e
Crimson, Denim and Midnight Blue 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 #4a135e in 5 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4a135e: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Visa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4a135e, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #4a135e: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bloomberg's brand system and Hermès's brand system put Slate Gray beside #4a135e, as the accent.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #4a135e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #4a135e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4a135e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #4a135e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4a135e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.55:1 | 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 #4a135e 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
#4a135e 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 #4a135e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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