Color
#505b95
#505b95rgb(80, 91, 149)hsl(230, 30%, 45%)oklch(0.489 0.094 274.3)Colors that go with #505b95
Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 #505b95: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #505b95 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #505b95 in 5 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #505b95: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #505b95: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #505b95 in 11 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #505b95: 5 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #505b95 in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Console Light, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #505b95
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #505b95 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.42:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.27:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #505b95 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #505b95 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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