Color
#5e118d
#5e118drgb(94, 17, 141)hsl(277, 78%, 31%)oklch(0.385 0.183 307.2)Colors that go with #5e118d
Olive Green, Charcoal and Sea Green 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 #5e118d 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 #5e118d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #5e118d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #5e118d in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5e118d in two real palettes: Lenovo's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5e118d: two real palettes: Slack's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #5e118d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTwo real palettes: FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #5e118d, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #5e118d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e118d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.82:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.94:1 | 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 #5e118d 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
#5e118d 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 #5e118d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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