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
#80388a
#80388a
hex
#80388argb
rgb(128, 56, 138)hsl
hsl(293, 42%, 38%)oklch
oklch(0.471 0.147 322.6)Closest name: Grapes of Italy (#714a8b)Relative luminance 0.0925
Colors that go with #80388a
Denim, Sea Green and Teal 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.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #80388a: 4 real palettes, including Slack's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementarySea Green sits directly opposite #80388a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #80388a: 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 #80388a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #80388a in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #80388a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #80388a in two real palettes: Wayfair's brand system and Semrush's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
shippedSandy Brown is paired with #80388a in two real palettes: Dusk Gradient and Golden Hour, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #80388a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #80388a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.37:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.85:1 | 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 #80388a 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
#80388a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #80388a
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 #80388a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/80388a-c19fc1-a1cb62-2d1f29-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