Color

#551eb3

#551eb3
hex#551eb3
rgbrgb(85, 30, 179)
hslhsl(262, 71%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.42 0.21 290.9)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0611

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7cb31e

#1e32b3 · #9f1eb3

#b3551e · #1eb355

Split-complementary

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#b39f1e · #32b31e

#b31e32 · #7cb31e · #1eb39f

Contrast

#551eb3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.45:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c59e3 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #aa85ea as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #551eb3 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

#551eb3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #551eb3
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 #551eb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/551eb3-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md