Color

#501565

#501565
hex#501565
rgbrgb(80, 21, 101)
hslhsl(284, 66%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.335 0.137 315.4)
Closest name: Elegant Purple Gown (#552367)Relative luminance 0.0318

Colors that go with #501565

Crimson, Denim and Midnight 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2a6615

#281566 · #661553

#665015 · #156650

Split-complementary

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#536615 · #156628

#662815 · #2a6615 · #155366

Contrast

#501565 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.83:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b041d8 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #c778e3 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #999999 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #501565 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

#501565 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #501565
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 #501565 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/501565-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md