Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#897eae
#897eae
hex
#897eaergb
rgb(137, 126, 174)hsl
hsl(254, 23%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.621 0.072 294.7)Closest name: Aster (#867ba9)Relative luminance 0.233
Colors that go with #897eae
Charcoal, Amber and Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #897eae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #897eae in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #897eae, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #897eae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #897eae: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #897eae, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #897eae in 14 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #897eae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #897eae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #897eae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.71:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #897eae 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #897eae
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 #897eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/897eae-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?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