Color
#bd38c2
#bd38c2rgb(189, 56, 194)hsl(298, 55%, 49%)oklch(0.59 0.226 326.4)Colors that go with #bd38c2
Forest Green, Dark Cyan 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.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #bd38c2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
split-complementshippedDark Cyan is a split-complement of #bd38c2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bd38c2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bd38c2: 3 real palettes, including Hasbro's brand system and Peacock, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #bd38c2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bd38c2 in The Ordinary's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #bd38c2: JetBrains's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Indigo #4b0082
shippedIndigo shows up next to #bd38c2 in Taco Bell's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bd38c2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bd38c2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.51:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bd38c2 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
#bd38c2 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 #bd38c2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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