Named color
Bruised Plum
#3b1921rgb(59, 25, 33)hsl(346, 40%, 16%)oklch(0.266 0.054 6.6)Bruised Plum on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Bruised Plum
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for Bruised Plum: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with Bruised Plum — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of Bruised Plum: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is Bruised Plum's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with Bruised Plum — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite Bruised Plum on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Bruised Plum in 18 real palettes, including Maple and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped21 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside Bruised Plum, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Bruised Plum
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Bruised Plum as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.59:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.35:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Bruised Plum 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
Bruised Plum reads as warm, dark, luxury. 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 #3b1921 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/3b1921-c49ca1-62cb80-2d221f-f1e9ef?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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