Color
#5a239a
#5a239argb(90, 35, 154)hsl(268, 63%, 37%)oklch(0.407 0.179 299.1)Colors that go with #5a239a
Olive Green, Charcoal 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.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #5a239a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5a239a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #5a239a, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #5a239a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #5a239a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #5a239a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedTwo real palettes: Zillow's brand system and Procter & Gamble's brand system put Blue beside #5a239a, as the lead colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #5a239a in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #5a239a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5a239a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.81:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.14:1 | 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 #5a239a as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#5a239a reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #5a239a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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