Color
#78429e
#78429ergb(120, 66, 158)hsl(275, 41%, 44%)oklch(0.487 0.149 309)Colors that go with #78429e
Sea Green, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #78429e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #78429e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78429e in 6 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78429e: 4 real palettes, including Linkedin's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #78429e, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78429e in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #78429e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #78429e in 3 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Fivetran blue's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #78429e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78429e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.84:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.07:1 | 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 #78429e 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
#78429e 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 #78429e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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