Color

#501bbb

#501bbb
hex#501bbb
rgbrgb(80, 27, 187)
hslhsl(260, 75%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.42 0.22 287.3)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0608

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#86bb1b

#1b36bb · #a11bbb

#bb501b · #1bbb50

Split-complementary

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#bba11b · #36bb1b

#bb1b36 · #86bb1b · #1bbba1

Contrast

#501bbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.48:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #895ae7 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #a682ed as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #501bbb 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

#501bbb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #501bbb
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #501bbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/501bbb-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md