Color

#55427b

#55427b
hex#55427b
rgbrgb(85, 66, 123)
hslhsl(260, 30%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.426 0.094 297.7)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0726

Colors that go with #55427b

Steel Blue, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#687b42

#424b7b · #71427b

#7b5542 · #427b55

Split-complementary

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#7b7142 · #4b7b42

#7b424b · #687b42 · #427b71

Contrast

#55427b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.57:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #816aaf as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a08ec2 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55427b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55427b
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 #55427b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55427b-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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