Color
#500255
#500255rgb(80, 2, 85)hsl(296, 95%, 17%)oklch(0.308 0.141 325.3)Colors that go with #500255
Forest Green, Denim and Teal 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.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #500255 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #500255: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Teal #008080
split-complementTeal is a split-complement of #500255: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #500255: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
analogousshippedBlue Violet is #500255's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #500255: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Pale Goldenrod #eee8aa
shippedTwo real palettes: Blossom and Macaron put Pale Goldenrod beside #500255, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #500255: two real palettes: FedEx's brand system and Discover's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #500255
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #500255 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.48:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #500255 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
#500255 reads as cool, vivid, dark. 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 #500255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/500255-c19fbf-9ccb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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