Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#9680a3rgb(150, 128, 163)hsl(278, 16%, 57%)oklch(0.632 0.057 312.9)Charcoal, Copper 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 is the text near-black for #9680a3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper completes a triad with #9680a3 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #9680a3, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #9680a3, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #9680a3: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Taupe is paired with #9680a3 in 18 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab sits directly opposite #9680a3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #9680a3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #9680a3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.55:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9680a3 as the background.
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 #9680a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9680a3-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md