Color
#9166e1
#9166e1rgb(145, 102, 225)hsl(261, 67%, 64%)oklch(0.612 0.18 296.9)Colors that go with #9166e1
Olive Drab, Midnight Blue and Royal Blue 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.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9166e1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9166e1, as that palette's text colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #9166e1's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9166e1 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Zed's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #9166e1: 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 #9166e1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementCopper is a split-complement of #9166e1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9166e1 in two real palettes: Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9166e1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9166e1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.19:1 | 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 #9166e1 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
#9166e1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #9166e1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9166e1-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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