Color
#51116e
#51116ergb(81, 17, 110)hsl(281, 73%, 25%)oklch(0.34 0.15 312.1)Colors that go with #51116e
Tomato, Forest Green and Charcoal 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.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #51116e, as the supporting colour.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #51116e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #51116e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #51116e in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #51116e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #51116e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #51116e: two real palettes: Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Mauve #e0b0ff
shippedMauve shows up next to #51116e in two real palettes: Lavender Haze and Ledger's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #51116e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #51116e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.66:1 | 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 #51116e 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
#51116e reads as cool, vivid, dark. 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 #51116e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/51116e-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?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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