Color
#956699
#956699rgb(149, 102, 153)hsl(295, 20%, 50%)oklch(0.578 0.094 324)Colors that go with #956699
Charcoal, Sea Green and Midnight 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #956699: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #956699 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 Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #956699, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #956699 in 7 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Greige, as the lead colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped3 real palettes, including Graphite and Campus put Orange beside #956699, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #956699 in 3 real palettes, including Semrush's brand system and Gallery, as the accent.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
split-complementDark Cyan is a split-complement of #956699: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #956699: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #956699
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #956699 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.64:1 | 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 #956699 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 #956699 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/956699-c19fbf-9dcb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?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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