Color

#540ecd

#540ecd
hex#540ecd
rgbrgb(84, 14, 205)
hslhsl(262, 87%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.436 0.245 286.4)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0661

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87cd0e

#0e28cd · #b40ecd

#cd540e · #0ecd54

Split-complementary

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#cdb40e · #28cd0e

#cd0e28 · #87cd0e · #0ecdb4

Contrast

#540ecd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b4ff3 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #aa7ef6 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #540ecd 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

#540ecd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #540ecd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #540ecd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/540ecd-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md