Color

#5e4e73

#5e4e73
hex#5e4e73
rgbrgb(94, 78, 115)
hslhsl(266, 19%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.455 0.062 303.8)
Closest name: Freshly Purpleized (#5c5083)Relative luminance 0.0907

Colors that go with #5e4e73

Denim, Medium Sea Green 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.

Real palettes that use #5e4e73

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#63734e

#4e5173 · #714e73

#735e4e · #4e735e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#73714e · #51734e

#734e51 · #63734e · #4e7371

Contrast

#5e4e73 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #816d9c as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9e8fb3 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5e4e73 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e4e73
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #5e4e73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5e4e73-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md