Color

#53388a

#53388a
hex#53388a
rgbrgb(83, 56, 138)
hslhsl(260, 42%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.415 0.131 295.3)
Closest name: darkslateblue (#483d8b)Relative luminance 0.065

Colors that go with #53388a

Charcoal, Royal Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6e8a38

#38468a · #7c388a

#8a5338 · #388a53

Split-complementary

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#8a7c38 · #468a38

#8a3846 · #6e8a38 · #388a7c

Contrast

#53388a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8567c1 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #a28bd0 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #53388a 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

#53388a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #53388a
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 #53388a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53388a-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md