Color

#516ef0

#516ef0
hex#516ef0
rgbrgb(81, 110, 240)
hslhsl(229, 84%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.588 0.197 269.8)
Closest name: Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee)Relative luminance 0.1919

Colors that go with #516ef0

Charcoal, Crimson and Sea 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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#f0d351

#51bef0 · #8451f0

#f0516e · #6ef051

Split-complementary

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#f08451 · #bef051

#f051be · #f0d351 · #51f084

Contrast

#516ef0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.34:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #4d6bef as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #1940eb as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.56:1)
Aaon black
4.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7c92f4 as the text (7.27:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #516ef0 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

#516ef0 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #516ef0
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 #516ef0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/516ef0-9c9fc4-df7e4e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md