Color

#515285

#515285
hex#515285
rgbrgb(81, 82, 133)
hslhsl(239, 24%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.461 0.082 281.8)
Closest name: Dusk (#4e5481)Relative luminance 0.0948

Colors that go with #515285

Charcoal, Steel 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.

Real palettes that use #515285

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#858451

#516c85 · #6a5185

#855152 · #528551

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#856a51 · #6c8551

#85516c · #858451 · #51856a

Contrast

#515285 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.25:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7172a8 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #9394bd as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (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 #515285 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 #515285
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 #515285 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/515285-a09cc4-df964e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md