Peacock
Open in tool →Teal, cobalt and magenta at full chroma on white — jewel tones in daylight; the trick is a near-black text with a blue cast.
Color
#a51daa
#a51daa
hex
#a51daargb
rgb(165, 29, 170)hsl
hsl(298, 71%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.52 0.223 326.5)Closest name: Magentle (#aa11aa)Relative luminance 0.1178
Colors that go with #a51daa
Denim, Forest Green and Teal 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.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a51daa: 4 real palettes, including Peacock and Hasbro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Forest Green #228b22
complementaryForest Green sits directly opposite #a51daa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #a51daa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a51daa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #a51daa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a51daa in two real palettes: Gemstone and The Ordinary's brand system, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
analogousBlue Violet is #a51daa's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Coral #ff7f50
shippedDesigners have shipped Coral with #a51daa: Dusk Gradient, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a51daa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a51daa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a51daa as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a51daa reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a51daa
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a51daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a51daa-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md