Color
#6d4ac4
#6d4ac4rgb(109, 74, 196)hsl(257, 51%, 53%)oklch(0.514 0.181 292)Colors that go with #6d4ac4
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 #6d4ac4: 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 #6d4ac4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #6d4ac4 in 5 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #6d4ac4: 5 real palettes, including Zillow's brand system and Warbyparker's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #6d4ac4: 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #6d4ac4 in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6d4ac4: 6 real palettes, including Linkedin's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #6d4ac4: 4 real palettes, including HashiCorp's brand system and Coursera's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #6d4ac4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6d4ac4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.13:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.43:1 | 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 #6d4ac4 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#6d4ac4 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 #6d4ac4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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