Color

#51477b

#51477b
hex#51477b
rgbrgb(81, 71, 123)
hslhsl(252, 27%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.432 0.085 291.3)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0769

Colors that go with #51477b

Steel Blue, Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #51477b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#717b47

#47567b · #6b477b

#7b5147 · #477b51

Split-complementary

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#7b6b47 · #567b47

#7b4756 · #717b47 · #477b6b

Contrast

#51477b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.28:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a6dab as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9a91c0 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51477b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #51477b
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 #51477b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/51477b-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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