Color

#c42ecc

#c42ecc
hex#c42ecc
rgbrgb(196, 46, 204)
hslhsl(297, 63%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.598 0.247 325.8)
Closest name: Awkward Purple (#d208cc)Relative luminance 0.1805

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#36cc2e

#752ecc · #cc2e85

#ccc42e · #2eccc4

Split-complementary

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#85cc2e · #2ecc75

#cc752e · #36cc2e · #2e85cc

Contrast

#c42ecc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.56:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #94239a as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
4.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d86ede as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c42ecc 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

#c42ecc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c42ecc
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 #c42ecc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c42ecc-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md