Color
#563e6f
#563e6frgb(86, 62, 111)hsl(269, 28%, 34%)oklch(0.412 0.084 305.6)Colors that go with #563e6f
Blue, Crimson and Denim 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #563e6f, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #563e6f in 8 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #563e6f: 7 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and HP's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #563e6f, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #563e6f in 4 real palettes, including Tumblr's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #563e6f: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Macaron, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #563e6f: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #563e6f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #563e6f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #563e6f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.31:1 | 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 #563e6f as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #563e6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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