Color

#542e8a

#542e8a
hex#542e8a
rgbrgb(84, 46, 138)
hslhsl(265, 50%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.401 0.146 298.6)
Closest name: Intergalactic Settlement (#5b1e8b)Relative luminance 0.0567

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#638a2e

#2e368a · #822e8a

#8a542e · #2e8a54

Split-complementary

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#8a822e · #368a2e

#8a2e36 · #638a2e · #2e8a82

Contrast

#542e8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.84:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b5ec9 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #a988d7 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #542e8a 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

#542e8a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #542e8a
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 #542e8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/542e8a-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md