Color

#53417c

#53417c
hex#53417c
rgbrgb(83, 65, 124)
hslhsl(258, 31%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.422 0.097 296.1)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0707

Colors that go with #53417c

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 →

#6a7c41

#414d7c · #70417c

#7c5341 · #417c53

Split-complementary

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#7c7041 · #4d7c41

#7c414d · #6a7c41 · #417c70

Contrast

#53417c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e69b0 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #9e8dc3 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #53417c 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 #53417c
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 #53417c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53417c-ad9cc4-dfc44e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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