Color
#5f09ae
#5f09aergb(95, 9, 174)hsl(271, 90%, 36%)oklch(0.414 0.217 298.1)Colors that go with #5f09ae
Olive Green, Charcoal and Tomato 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 #5f09ae 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 #5f09ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system put Tomato beside #5f09ae, as the supporting colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #5f09ae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Forest Green #228b22
split-complementForest Green is a split-complement of #5f09ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #5f09ae's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #5f09ae in two real palettes: Twitch's brand system and Taco Bell's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #5f09ae: two real palettes: Zillow's brand system and Unilever's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #5f09ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5f09ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.83:1 | 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 #5f09ae as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#5f09ae 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 #5f09ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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