Color

#52417c

#52417c
hex#52417c
rgbrgb(82, 65, 124)
hslhsl(257, 31%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.421 0.097 295.2)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0703

Colors that go with #52417c

Steel Blue, Blue and Crimson 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

Open in tool →

#6b7c41

#414e7c · #6f417c

#7c5241 · #417c52

Split-complementary

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#7c6f41 · #4e7c41

#7c414e · #6b7c41 · #417c6f

Contrast

#52417c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.73:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d69b0 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #9d8dc3 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #52417c as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #52417c
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 #52417c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/52417c-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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