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
#9684ae
#9684ae
hex
#9684aergb
rgb(150, 132, 174)hsl
hsl(266, 21%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.644 0.065 304.2)Closest name: Magic Carpet (#9488be)Relative luminance 0.2604
Colors that go with #9684ae
Charcoal, Copper and Amber 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 #9684ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9684ae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9684ae in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #9684ae, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9684ae: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #9684ae, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9684ae: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9684ae in 16 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #9684ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9684ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.38:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.21:1 | 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 #9684ae 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 #9684ae
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 #9684ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9684ae-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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