Color

#520a42

#520a42
hex#520a42
rgbrgb(82, 10, 66)
hslhsl(313, 78%, 18%)
oklchoklch(0.305 0.12 339.2)
Closest name: Velvet Cosmos (#441144)Relative luminance 0.024

Colors that go with #520a42

Sea Green, Wheat and Teal 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.

Real palettes that use #520a42

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a521a

#3d0a52 · #520a1e

#42520a · #0a4252

Split-complementary

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#1e520a · #0a523d

#523d0a · #0a521a · #0a1e52

Contrast

#520a42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
14.18:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d51aad as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #eb60cd as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #520a42 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

#520a42 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #520a42
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 #520a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/520a42-c19fb5-7ecb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md