Color

#551daa

#551daa
hex#551daa
rgbrgb(85, 29, 170)
hslhsl(264, 71%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.41 0.201 293.1)
Closest name: Intergalactic Settlement (#5b1e8b)Relative luminance 0.0571

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#72aa1d

#1d2baa · #9c1daa

#aa551d · #1daa55

Split-complementary

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#aa9c1d · #2baa1d

#aa1d2b · #72aa1d · #1daa9c

Contrast

#551daa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.8:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d55e2 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ab81ea as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #551daa 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

#551daa reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #551daa
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 #551daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/551daa-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md