Color
#916dba
#916dbargb(145, 109, 186)hsl(268, 36%, 58%)oklch(0.602 0.12 304.6)Colors that go with #916dba
Charcoal, Midnight Blue 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 #916dba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #916dba, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #916dba in 7 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Superhuman's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #916dba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #916dba: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #916dba: 3 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #916dba: 3 real palettes, including Linkedin's brand system and Campus, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #916dba — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #916dba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #916dba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.1:1 | 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 #916dba 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
#916dba reads as cool, modern. 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 #916dba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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