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
#78438e
#78438e
hex
#78438ergb
rgb(120, 67, 142)hsl
hsl(282, 36%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.479 0.128 315.2)Closest name: Grapes of Italy (#714a8b)Relative luminance 0.0996
Colors that go with #78438e
Sea Green, Denim 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #78438e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78438e: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78438e in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #78438e: 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 #78438e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78438e in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Kraken's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #78438e, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
split-complementDark Olive Green is a split-complement of #78438e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #78438e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78438e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.02:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.99:1 | 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 #78438e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#78438e reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78438e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #78438e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78438e-ba9fc1-b4cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md