Color

#501ddd

#501ddd
hex#501ddd
rgbrgb(80, 29, 221)
hslhsl(256, 77%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.458 0.254 281.8)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.078

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aadd1d

#1d4add · #b01ddd

#dd501d · #1ddd50

Split-complementary

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#ddb01d · #4add1d

#dd1d4a · #aadd1d · #1dddb0

Contrast

#501ddd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.2:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #825dea as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #a185ef as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7:1)

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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/501ddd-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md