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
#853e89
#853e89
hex
#853e89rgb
rgb(133, 62, 137)hsl
hsl(297, 38%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.485 0.139 325.4)Closest name: Bruise (#7e4071)Relative luminance 0.1024
Colors that go with #853e89
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 #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #853e89 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #853e89: 4 real palettes, including Peacock and Slack's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #853e89 in 4 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #853e89: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Teal #008080
split-complementTeal is a split-complement of #853e89: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
split-complementDark Olive Green is a split-complement of #853e89: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #853e89 in two real palettes: Wells Fargo's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Coral #f08080
shippedDesigners have shipped Light Coral with #853e89: two real palettes: Sentry's brand system and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #853e89
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #853e89 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.05:1 | 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 #853e89 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
#853e89 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #853e89
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 #853e89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/853e89-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-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