Color
#956edd
#956eddrgb(149, 110, 221)hsl(261, 62%, 65%)oklch(0.627 0.164 297.7)Colors that go with #956edd
Olive Drab, 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.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #956edd 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
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #956edd in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Marvel's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #956edd in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #956edd in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #956edd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #956edd in 3 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #956edd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #956edd in two real palettes: Ahrefs's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #956edd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #956edd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.78:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.55:1 | 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 #956edd 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
#956edd 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 #956edd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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