Color

#515ba9

#515ba9
hex#515ba9
rgbrgb(81, 91, 169)
hslhsl(233, 35%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.502 0.124 275.5)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.121

Colors that go with #515ba9

Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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 →

#a99e51

#5187a9 · #7351a9

#a9515b · #5ba951

Split-complementary

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#a97351 · #87a951

#a95187 · #a99e51 · #51a973

Contrast

#515ba9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.14:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #495297 as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black
3.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6871b6 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #8d94c8 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #515ba9 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

#515ba9 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #515ba9
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 #515ba9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/515ba9-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md