Color

#d42bc8

#d42bc8
hex#d42bc8
rgbrgb(212, 43, 200)
hslhsl(304, 66%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.618 0.253 331.5)
Closest name: Awkward Purple (#d208cc)Relative luminance 0.1989

Colors that go with #d42bc8

Sea 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2bd437

#8b2bd4 · #d42b74

#c8d42b · #2bc8d4

Split-complementary

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#74d42b · #2bd48b

#d48b2b · #2bd437 · #2b74d4

Contrast

#d42bc8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cb2ac0 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #981f90 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.54:1)
Aaon black
4.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e067d8 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d42bc8 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

#d42bc8 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d42bc8
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 #d42bc8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d42bc8-c19fba-8ecb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md