Color
#601bbb
#601bbbrgb(96, 27, 187)hsl(266, 75%, 42%)oklch(0.438 0.22 294.4)Colors that go with #601bbb
Royal Blue, Olive Green and Charcoal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #601bbb's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #601bbb 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 #601bbb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #601bbb in 3 real palettes, including Peacock's brand system and Blue Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #601bbb in 3 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #601bbb — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #601bbb in 3 real palettes, including GitLab's brand system and dbt Labs's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Forest Green #228b22
split-complementForest Green is a split-complement of #601bbb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #601bbb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #601bbb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.85:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.37:1 | 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 #601bbb as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#601bbb 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 #601bbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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