Color

#553d8a

#553d8a
hex#553d8a
rgbrgb(85, 61, 138)
hslhsl(259, 39%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.426 0.123 295)
Closest name: darkslateblue (#483d8b)Relative luminance 0.071

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#728a3d

#3d4b8a · #7c3d8a

#8a553d · #3d8a55

Split-complementary

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#8a7c3d · #4b8a3d

#8a3d4b · #728a3d · #3d8a7c

Contrast

#553d8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8267bc as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #a28ecd as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #553d8a 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

#553d8a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #553d8a
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 #553d8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/553d8a-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md