Plum hex code
Plum
#dda0ddrgb(221, 160, 221)hsl(300, 47%, 75%)oklch(0.783 0.108 326.5)Plum is a light, moderately saturated magenta — #dda0dd, rgb(221, 160, 221), hue 300° at 47% saturation. The colours that go with plum are Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Crimson — each with the reason below, and the real palettes that pair them. It fails AA as text on white (2.07:1) but passes on black at 10.15:1 — a dark-mode colour, or a fill with dark type on it.
Colors that go with Plum
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Crimson 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 text near-black for Plum: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite Plum on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Plum in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Railway's brand system and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside Plum, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with Plum: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite Mono put Slate Gray beside Plum, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with Plum in 13 real palettes, including Blossom and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of Plum: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use Plum
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Plum as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.15:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 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
Plum reads as warm, light, clean. 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 #dda0dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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