Color

#c51ec8

#c51ec8
hex#c51ec8
rgbrgb(197, 30, 200)
hslhsl(299, 74%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.588 0.256 327.4)
Closest name: Explosive Purple (#cc11bb)Relative luminance 0.1697

Colors that go with #c51ec8

Forest Green, Dark Cyan and Olive Green 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 #c51ec8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#21c81e

#701ec8 · #c81e76

#c8c51e · #1ec8c5

Split-complementary

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#76c81e · #1ec870

#c8701e · #21c81e · #1e76c8

Contrast

#c51ec8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #99179b as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
4.39:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c91ecc as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #e55fe7 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c51ec8 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

#c51ec8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c51ec8
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 #c51ec8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c51ec8-c19fbd-96cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md