Color
#501140
#501140rgb(80, 17, 64)hsl(315, 65%, 19%)oklch(0.306 0.109 340)Colors that go with #501140
Charcoal, Crimson and Sea Green 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 body-text near-black for #501140: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #501140's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #501140 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #501140, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #501140: 5 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #501140: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Chipotle's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #501140 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Cider, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #501140
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #501140 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.5:1 | 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 #501140 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
#501140 reads as warm, 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 #501140 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/501140-c19fb4-7bcb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?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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