Color
#742afe
#742afergb(116, 42, 254)hsl(261, 99%, 58%)oklch(0.535 0.276 288.8)Colors that go with #742afe
Deep Sky Blue, Olive Green and Charcoal 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.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #742afe: 4 real palettes, including Render's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #742afe 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 #742afe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #742afe: 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #742afe in 3 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Discord's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #742afe, as that palette's text colour.
Forest Green #228b22
split-complementForest Green is a split-complement of #742afe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #742afe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #742afe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #742afe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.99:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.5:1 | 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 #742afe as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#742afe 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 #742afe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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