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
#9682a6
#9682a6
hex
#9682a6rgb
rgb(150, 130, 166)hsl
hsl(273, 17%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.637 0.058 309.8)Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.252
Colors that go with #9682a6
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9682a6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9682a6 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #9682a6, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9682a6: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9682a6 in 18 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9682a6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementshippedDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #9682a6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #9682a6, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9682a6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9682a6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.04:1 | 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 #9682a6 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9682a6
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9682a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9682a6-b79cc4-c4cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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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