Color

#51699e

#51699e
hex#51699e
rgbrgb(81, 105, 158)
hslhsl(221, 32%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.525 0.089 264.9)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1432

Colors that go with #51699e

Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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

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#9e8651

#51909e · #60519e

#9e516a · #6a9e51

Split-complementary

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#9e6051 · #909e51

#9e5190 · #9e8651 · #519e60

Contrast

#51699e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #445883 as the text (7.07:1)
Aaon black
3.86:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d76ac as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #8296bf as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51699e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #51699e
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 #51699e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/51699e-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md