Color

#4e42b8

#4e42b8
hex#4e42b8
rgbrgb(78, 66, 184)
hslhsl(246, 47%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.464 0.179 281.5)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0898

Colors that go with #4e42b8

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#acb842

#4271b8 · #8942b8

#b84e42 · #42b84e

Split-complementary

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#b88942 · #71b842

#b84271 · #acb842 · #42b889

Contrast

#4e42b8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7369c9 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #968fd6 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e42b8 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

#4e42b8 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e42b8
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #4e42b8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e42b8-a59cc4-dfa74e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md