Color
#552d8f
#552d8frgb(85, 45, 143)hsl(264, 52%, 37%)oklch(0.404 0.154 297.9)Colors that go with #552d8f
Royal Blue, Midnight Blue and Tomato 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #552d8f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #552d8f, as the lead colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including dbt Labs's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #552d8f, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #552d8f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Zillow's brand system and Procter & Gamble's brand system put Blue beside #552d8f, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #552d8f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #552d8f in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #552d8f: 3 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #552d8f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #552d8f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.73:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.16:1 | 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 #552d8f 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
#552d8f 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 #552d8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/552d8f-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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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