Color
#5255a7
#5255a7rgb(82, 85, 167)hsl(238, 34%, 49%)oklch(0.489 0.129 278.9)Colors that go with #5255a7
Charcoal, Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5255a7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5255a7 in 7 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #5255a7, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #5255a7: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5255a7 in 16 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #5255a7: 5 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #5255a7: 5 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and Venmo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #5255a7's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #5255a7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5255a7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5255a7 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #5255a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5255a7-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?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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