Color
#55237b
#55237brgb(85, 35, 123)hsl(274, 56%, 31%)oklch(0.375 0.144 306.7)Colors that go with #55237b
Charcoal, Crimson and Midnight 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 #55237b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #55237b in 5 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Gillette's brand system and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #55237b, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #55237b in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Discord's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #55237b, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #55237b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #55237b in 3 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #55237b: 3 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #55237b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55237b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.98:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.91:1 | 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 #55237b 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
#55237b reads as cool, modern. 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 #55237b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/55237b-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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