Color

#c481da

#c481da
hex#c481da
rgbrgb(196, 129, 218)
hslhsl(285, 55%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.144 317.5)
Closest name: orchid (#da70d6)Relative luminance 0.325

Colors that go with #c481da

Medium Sea Green, Amber and Taupe 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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#97da81

#9781da · #da81c4

#dac481 · #81dac4

Split-complementary

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#c4da81 · #81da97

#da9781 · #97da81 · #81c4da

Contrast

#c481da as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #aa49ca as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #852fa2 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c481da 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

#c481da reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c481da
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 #c481da and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c481da-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md