Color
#520a40
#520a40rgb(82, 10, 64)hsl(315, 78%, 18%)oklch(0.303 0.118 340.8)Colors that go with #520a40
Crimson, Sea Green 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #520a40's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #520a40 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #520a40, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #520a40: 4 real palettes, including Heinz's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Volkswagen's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #520a40, as that palette's text colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #520a40 in 4 real palettes, including Rotten Tomatoes's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Bloomberg's brand system and Hermès's brand system put Slate Gray beside #520a40, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #520a40: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #520a40
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #520a40 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.23:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.48:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #520a40 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
#520a40 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #520a40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/520a40-c19fb4-7bcb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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