Color
#56256f
#56256frgb(86, 37, 111)hsl(280, 50%, 29%)oklch(0.37 0.128 312.3)Colors that go with #56256f
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 #56256f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #56256f in 5 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and Gillette's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #56256f, as the accent.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Golden Hour put Tomato beside #56256f, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementarySea Green sits directly opposite #56256f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #56256f: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Slack's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #56256f: 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #56256f in 3 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #56256f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #56256f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.11:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.89:1 | 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 #56256f 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
#56256f 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 #56256f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/56256f-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?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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