Color

#512bb1

#512bb1
hex#512bb1
rgbrgb(81, 43, 177)
hslhsl(257, 61%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.427 0.196 288)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0665

Colors that go with #512bb1

Charcoal, Royal Blue and 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 →

#8bb12b

#2b48b1 · #942bb1

#b1512b · #2bb151

Split-complementary

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#b1942b · #48b12b

#b12b48 · #8bb12b · #2bb194

Contrast

#512bb1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #815fd8 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #a288e2 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #512bb1 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

#512bb1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #512bb1
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 #512bb1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/512bb1-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md