Color
#642d8b
#642d8brgb(100, 45, 139)hsl(275, 51%, 36%)oklch(0.419 0.152 308)Colors that go with #642d8b
Crimson, Tomato and Olive Green 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 #642d8b in 4 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped5 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #642d8b, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #642d8b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #642d8b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #642d8b, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #642d8b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #642d8b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #642d8b in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #642d8b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #642d8b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.17:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.29:1 | 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 #642d8b 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
#642d8b 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 #642d8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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