Color
#5a42b8
#5a42b8rgb(90, 66, 184)hsl(252, 47%, 49%)oklch(0.474 0.177 286.9)Colors that go with #5a42b8
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 #5a42b8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #5a42b8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5a42b8 in 4 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Zillow's brand system put Blue beside #5a42b8, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #5a42b8: 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5a42b8 in 12 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #5a42b8: 5 real palettes, including Datadog's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #5a42b8 in 4 real palettes, including Sentry's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #5a42b8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5a42b8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.23:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.91:1 | 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 #5a42b8 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
#5a42b8 reads as cool, modern. 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 #5a42b8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5a42b8-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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