Color

#6551bd

#6551bd
hex#6551bd
rgbrgb(101, 81, 189)
hslhsl(251, 45%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.512 0.163 287.7)
Closest name: slateblue (#6a5acd)Relative luminance 0.1233

Colors that go with #6551bd

Charcoal, Sea Green and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9bd51

#5173bd · #9b51bd

#bd6551 · #51bd65

Split-complementary

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#bd9b51 · #73bd51

#bd5173 · #a9bd51 · #51bd9b

Contrast

#6551bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.06:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5945b5 as the text (7.13:1)
Aaon black
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7967c5 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #998cd4 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #6551bd 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

#6551bd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #6551bd
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 #6551bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/6551bd-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md