Color
#7d497e
#7d497ergb(125, 73, 126)hsl(299, 27%, 39%)oklch(0.486 0.103 326.3)Colors that go with #7d497e
Sea Green, Charcoal 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 #7d497e 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 #7d497e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #7d497e in 6 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7d497e in 8 real palettes, including Blush and Dusk, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #7d497e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #7d497e, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #7d497e in 3 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7d497e: 3 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #7d497e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7d497e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.72:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.13:1 | 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 #7d497e as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #7d497e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/7d497e-c19fbd-96cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?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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