Color
#551ca6
#551ca6rgb(85, 28, 166)hsl(265, 71%, 38%)oklch(0.405 0.198 294.1)Colors that go with #551ca6
Royal Blue, Midnight Blue and Tomato 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 #551ca6's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #551ca6, as the lead colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #551ca6, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #551ca6 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 #551ca6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #551ca6: 3 real palettes, including Zillow's brand system and Unilever's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #551ca6 in 3 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #551ca6: 3 real palettes, including Slack's brand system and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #551ca6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #551ca6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.99:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.1:1 | 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 #551ca6 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#551ca6 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 #551ca6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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