Named color
Imperial Purple
#5b3167rgb(91, 49, 103)hsl(287, 36%, 30%)oklch(0.39 0.1 318.4)Imperial Purple on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Imperial Purple
Sea Green, Crimson and Denim 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite Imperial Purple on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Imperial Purple in 7 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Imperial Purple: 6 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and HP's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside Imperial Purple, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with Imperial Purple: 5 real palettes, including Macaron and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with Imperial Purple in 5 real palettes, including Zoom's brand system and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bloomberg's brand system and Hermès's brand system put Slate Gray beside Imperial Purple, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for Imperial Purple: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use Imperial Purple
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Imperial Purple as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.1:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.08:1 | 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 Imperial Purple 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
Imperial Purple reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #5b3167 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5b3167-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?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