Color
#563f7d
#563f7drgb(86, 63, 125)hsl(262, 33%, 37%)oklch(0.422 0.102 299.1)Colors that go with #563f7d
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #563f7d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #563f7d, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #563f7d in 8 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #563f7d: 13 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and HP's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped11 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #563f7d, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #563f7d: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Glacier, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #563f7d in 10 real palettes, including Console Light and Nokia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #563f7d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #563f7d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #563f7d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.74:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.4:1 | 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 #563f7d 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 #563f7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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