Color
#506cdc
#506cdcrgb(80, 108, 220)hsl(228, 67%, 59%)oklch(0.57 0.174 269.6)Colors that go with #506cdc
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 #506cdc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #506cdc — 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 #506cdc in 12 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Walmart's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped14 real palettes, including BBC's brand system and EA's brand system put Blue beside #506cdc, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #506cdc: 13 real palettes, including Carrefour's brand system and Nokia's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #506cdc: 6 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #506cdc in 17 real palettes, including Pizza Hut's brand system and Foot Locker's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
analogousshippedDark Orchid is #506cdc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #506cdc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #506cdc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.52:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #506cdc 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
#506cdc reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #506cdc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/506cdc-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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