Color

#511ba7

#511ba7
hex#511ba7
rgbrgb(81, 27, 167)
hslhsl(263, 72%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.401 0.199 292)
Closest name: Intergalactic Settlement (#5b1e8b)Relative luminance 0.0532

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#71a71b

#1b2ba7 · #961ba7

#a7511b · #1ba751

Split-complementary

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#a7961b · #2ba71b

#a71b2b · #71a71b · #1ba796

Contrast

#511ba7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.17:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.06:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e58e4 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #ac84eb as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #511ba7 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

#511ba7 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #511ba7
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 #511ba7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/511ba7-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md