Color

#551ecc

#551ecc
hex#551ecc
rgbrgb(85, 30, 204)
hslhsl(259, 74%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.445 0.236 286.2)
Closest name: Blurple (#5539cc)Relative luminance 0.0722

Colors that go with #551ecc

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Cobalt 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#95cc1e

#1e3ecc · #ac1ecc

#cc551e · #1ecc55

Split-complementary

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#ccac1e · #3ecc1e

#cc1e3e · #95cc1e · #1eccac

Contrast

#551ecc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #875be6 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #a483ec as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.01:1)

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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #551ecc
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #551ecc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/551ecc-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md