Color

#501d77

#501d77
hex#501d77
rgbrgb(80, 29, 119)
hslhsl(274, 61%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.358 0.146 306.1)
Closest name: Elegant Purple Gown (#552367)Relative luminance 0.0392

Colors that go with #501d77

Royal Blue, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#44771d

#231d77 · #771d71

#77501d · #1d7750

Split-complementary

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#71771d · #1d7723

#77231d · #44771d · #1d7177

Contrast

#501d77 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.78:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d53d5 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #b680e0 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #501d77 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

#501d77 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #501d77
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 #501d77 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/501d77-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md