Color
#511d5e
#511d5ergb(81, 29, 94)hsl(288, 53%, 24%)oklch(0.34 0.119 319)Colors that go with #511d5e
Sea Green, 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #511d5e 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 #511d5e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #511d5e in 5 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #511d5e: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Volkswagen's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #511d5e, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #511d5e: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bloomberg's brand system and Hermès's brand system put Slate Gray beside #511d5e, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #511d5e in 4 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and Superhuman's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #511d5e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #511d5e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.45:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.69:1 | 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 #511d5e 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
#511d5e reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #511d5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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