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
#79428a
#79428a
hex
#79428argb
rgb(121, 66, 138)hsl
hsl(286, 35%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.476 0.126 317.8)Closest name: Grapes of Italy (#714a8b)Relative luminance 0.098
Colors that go with #79428a
Sea Green, Denim and Midnight 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 #79428a 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 #79428a: 5 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #79428a, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #79428a in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #79428a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #79428a in 3 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #79428a in 3 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementTeal is a split-complement of #79428a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #79428a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #79428a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.1:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.96:1 | 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 #79428a 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
#79428a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #79428a
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 #79428a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/79428a-bd9fc1-adcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?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