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
#7d458crgb(125, 69, 140)hsl(287, 34%, 41%)oklch(0.487 0.125 318.9)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 sits directly opposite #7d458c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Denim with #7d458c: 5 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Linkedin's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe is paired with #7d458c in 5 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #7d458c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson is paired with #7d458c in 3 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
3 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #7d458c, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #7d458c in 3 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Teal is a split-complement of #7d458c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #7d458c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.77:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.1:1 | 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 #7d458c as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #7d458c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/7d458c-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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