Color
#511178
#511178rgb(81, 17, 120)hsl(277, 75%, 27%)oklch(0.348 0.16 307.8)Colors that go with #511178
Olive Drab, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #511178 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 #511178: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #511178 in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #511178's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including dbt Labs's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #511178, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #511178 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #511178: 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 #511178: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #511178
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #511178 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.34:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.7:1 | 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 #511178 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
#511178 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 #511178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/511178-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?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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