Color
#685ed9
#685ed9rgb(104, 94, 217)hsl(245, 62%, 61%)oklch(0.557 0.182 282.4)Colors that go with #685ed9
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 #685ed9: 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 #685ed9: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #685ed9 in 8 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #685ed9, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #685ed9: 12 real palettes, including Carrefour's brand system and Nokia's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #685ed9: 6 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #685ed9 in 16 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #685ed9: 7 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #685ed9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #685ed9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.19:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #685ed9 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#685ed9 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #685ed9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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