Color
#501c6e
#501c6ergb(80, 28, 110)hsl(278, 59%, 27%)oklch(0.349 0.137 310.1)Colors that go with #501c6e
Charcoal, Crimson 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #501c6e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #501c6e in 6 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and Visa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #501c6e, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #501c6e, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementarySea Green sits directly opposite #501c6e 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 #501c6e: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #501c6e in 3 real palettes, including Discord's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #501c6e in 3 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #501c6e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #501c6e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.12:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.73:1 | 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 #501c6e 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
#501c6e reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #501c6e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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