Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#744285rgb(116, 66, 133)hsl(285, 34%, 39%)oklch(0.467 0.118 317)Midnight Blue, Royal Blue and Taupe 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.
4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #744285, as that palette's text colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #744285 in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe is paired with #744285 in 5 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sea Green sits directly opposite #744285 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #744285: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Designers have shipped Denim with #744285: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and HP's brand system, as the accent.
Teal is a split-complement of #744285: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green is a split-complement of #744285: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #744285 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.34:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.86:1 | 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 #744285 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #744285 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/744285-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?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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