Color
#4d165f
#4d165frgb(77, 22, 95)hsl(285, 62%, 23%)oklch(0.326 0.128 316.4)Colors that go with #4d165f
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 #4d165f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #4d165f in 5 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4d165f: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Gillette's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4d165f, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #4d165f: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped5 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #4d165f, as the supporting colour.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #4d165f 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 #4d165f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #4d165f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4d165f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.16:1 | 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 #4d165f 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
#4d165f 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 #4d165f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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