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
#78448d
#78448d
hex
#78448drgb
rgb(120, 68, 141)hsl
hsl(283, 35%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.48 0.126 315.5)Closest name: Grapes of Italy (#714a8b)Relative luminance 0.1005
Colors that go with #78448d
Sea Green, Denim and Royal Blue 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 #78448d 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 #78448d: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #78448d in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78448d in 5 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 #78448d: 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 #78448d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78448d 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 Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #78448d, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #78448d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78448d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.98:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.01:1 | 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 #78448d 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
#78448d reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78448d
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 #78448d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78448d-bb9fc1-b2cb62-2d1f2b-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