Color

#a42dc8

#a42dc8
hex#a42dc8
rgbrgb(164, 45, 200)
hslhsl(286, 63%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.549 0.232 316.8)
Closest name: darkorchid (#9932cc)Relative luminance 0.1394

Colors that go with #a42dc8

Forest Green, Sea Green and Charcoal 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#51c82d

#562dc8 · #c82d9e

#c8a42d · #2dc8a4

Split-complementary

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#9ec82d · #2dc856

#c8562d · #51c82d · #2d9ec8

Contrast

#a42dc8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c27aa as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
3.79:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b140d4 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #c776e0 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42dc8 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a42dc8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42dc8
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a42dc8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42dc8-bd9fc1-adcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md