Color
#9168ac
#9168acrgb(145, 104, 172)hsl(276, 29%, 54%)oklch(0.586 0.11 311)Colors that go with #9168ac
Charcoal, Sea Green and Taupe 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 #9168ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #9168ac on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9168ac in 5 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9168ac, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped3 real palettes, including Campus and Graphite put Orange beside #9168ac, as the accent.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including Hermès's brand system and Sunset Boulevard put Tomato beside #9168ac, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #9168ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #9168ac in two real palettes: Klarna US's brand system and ClickUp's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9168ac
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Contrast
| #9168ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.39:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.78:1 | 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 #9168ac as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #9168ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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