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
#804186rgb(128, 65, 134)hsl(295, 35%, 39%)oklch(0.481 0.128 324)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 #804186 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim is paired with #804186 in 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe is paired with #804186 in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #804186: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Teal is a split-complement of #804186: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green is a split-complement of #804186: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Coral is paired with #804186 in two real palettes: Blush and Sentry's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue is paired with #804186 in two real palettes: Wayfair's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #804186 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.96:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.02:1 | 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 #804186 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#804186 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #804186 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/804186-c19fbf-9dcb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?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