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
#80428argb(128, 66, 138)hsl(292, 35%, 40%)oklch(0.485 0.13 321.9)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 #80428a 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 #80428a: 5 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Peacock, as the accent.
Taupe is paired with #80428a in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #80428a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson is paired with #80428a in 3 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Teal is a split-complement of #80428a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green is a split-complement of #80428a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Light Coral with #80428a: two real palettes: Sentry's brand system and Blush, as the lead colour.
| #80428a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.85:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.06:1 | 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 #80428a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#80428a 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 #80428a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/80428a-c09fc1-a3cb62-2d1f29-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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