Color

#516abd

#516abd
hex#516abd
rgbrgb(81, 106, 189)
hslhsl(226, 45%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.545 0.133 269.1)
Closest name: Loch Ness (#5f6db0)Relative luminance 0.1573

Colors that go with #516abd

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

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#bda451

#51a0bd · #6e51bd

#bd516a · #6abd51

Split-complementary

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#bd6e51 · #a0bd51

#bd51a0 · #bda451 · #51bd6e

Contrast

#516abd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.06:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3c539f as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
4.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5971c0 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8193cf as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #516abd 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

#516abd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #516abd
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 #516abd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/516abd-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md