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Open in tool →Violet plus cyan is the current AI-product signal — pair it with pure black type to keep it from going candy.
Color
#7b40f2
#7b40f2
hex
#7b40f2rgb
rgb(123, 64, 242)hsl
hsl(260, 87%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.551 0.246 291.2)Closest name: Candy Grape Fizz (#7755ee)Relative luminance 0.1429
Colors that go with #7b40f2
Midnight Blue, Olive Green and Charcoal 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.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Discord's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #7b40f2, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #7b40f2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #7b40f2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #7b40f2: 3 real palettes, including Render's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #7b40f2 in 3 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Sentry's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #7b40f2 in 3 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Console Light, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #7b40f2's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7b40f2 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Superhuman's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #7b40f2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7b40f2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.44:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.86:1 | 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 #7b40f2 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#7b40f2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7b40f2
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 #7b40f2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7b40f2-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?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