Color
#5501cb
#5501cbrgb(85, 1, 203)hsl(265, 99%, 40%)oklch(0.43 0.247 287.6)Colors that go with #5501cb
Royal Blue, Charcoal and Denim 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #5501cb's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5501cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #5501cb in 4 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Google's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #5501cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #5501cb in 3 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Peacock's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #5501cb in 3 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #5501cb in 3 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Intercom's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #5501cb in 3 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Ink & Paper, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #5501cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5501cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.25:1 | 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 #5501cb 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
#5501cb reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #5501cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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