Color
#540a7f
#540a7frgb(84, 10, 127)hsl(278, 85%, 27%)oklch(0.354 0.172 307.3)Colors that go with #540a7f
Olive Green, Charcoal 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.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #540a7f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #540a7f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #540a7f in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #540a7f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #540a7f, as the supporting colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #540a7f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #540a7f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #540a7f in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #540a7f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #540a7f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.16:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #540a7f as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#540a7f reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #540a7f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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