Color
#55255b
#55255brgb(85, 37, 91)hsl(293, 42%, 25%)oklch(0.355 0.105 323.1)Colors that go with #55255b
Sea Green, Blue and Crimson 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #55255b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #55255b, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #55255b in 7 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #55255b: 9 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Volkswagen's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #55255b, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #55255b: 6 real palettes, including Macaron and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #55255b in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #55255b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #55255b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55255b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.65:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.8:1 | 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 #55255b 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
#55255b reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #55255b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/55255b-c19fc1-a1cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?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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