Color

#511d6d

#511d6d
hex#511d6d
rgbrgb(81, 29, 109)
hslhsl(279, 58%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.351 0.135 311.1)
Closest name: Elegant Purple Gown (#552367)Relative luminance 0.0373

Colors that go with #511d6d

Charcoal, Crimson and Midnight Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#396d1d

#291d6d · #6d1d61

#6d511d · #1d6d51

Split-complementary

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#616d1d · #1d6d29

#6d291d · #396d1d · #1d616d

Contrast

#511d6d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.02:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a24ed0 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #bc7edd as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #511d6d 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

#511d6d reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #511d6d
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #511d6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/511d6d-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md