Color
#cd4ad9
#cd4ad9rgb(205, 74, 217)hsl(295, 65%, 57%)oklch(0.642 0.231 324.3)Colors that go with #cd4ad9
Medium Sea Green, Charcoal and Cadet Blue 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #cd4ad9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #cd4ad9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementCadet Blue is a split-complement of #cd4ad9: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
split-complementOlive Drab is a split-complement of #cd4ad9: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cd4ad9 in two real palettes: The Ordinary's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
triadicDark Goldenrod completes a triad with #cd4ad9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Purple #9370db
analogousMedium Purple is #cd4ad9's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #cd4ad9 in Hasbro's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cd4ad9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cd4ad9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.77:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.58:1 | 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 #cd4ad9 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
#cd4ad9 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #cd4ad9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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