Color
#551dcd
#551dcdrgb(85, 29, 205)hsl(259, 75%, 46%)oklch(0.446 0.237 286.1)Colors that go with #551dcd
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Cornflower Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #551dcd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #551dcd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #551dcd in 4 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #551dcd in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Behance's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #551dcd in 4 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Cargo'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 #551dcd in 6 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Purina Pro Plan's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #551dcd in 6 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Soundcloud's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #551dcd in 8 real palettes, including Datadog's brand system and Superhuman's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #551dcd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #551dcd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.59:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.44:1 | 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 #551dcd 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
#551dcd 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 #551dcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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