Color

#a42ecc

#a42ecc
hex#a42ecc
rgbrgb(164, 46, 204)
hslhsl(285, 63%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.552 0.235 315.6)
Closest name: darkorchid (#9932cc)Relative luminance 0.1421

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#56cc2e

#562ecc · #cc2ea4

#cca42e · #2ecca4

Split-complementary

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#a4cc2e · #2ecc56

#cc562e · #56cc2e · #2ea4cc

Contrast

#a42ecc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8927aa as the text (7.16:1)
Aaon black
3.84:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #af40d4 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #c576e0 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a42ecc 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

#a42ecc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a42ecc
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #a42ecc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a42ecc-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md