Color
#9686d5
#9686d5rgb(150, 134, 213)hsl(252, 48%, 68%)oklch(0.666 0.116 292.3)Colors that go with #9686d5
Charcoal, Amber and Denim 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 #9686d5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9686d5 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9686d5: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #9686d5 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9686d5, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9686d5: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9686d5 in 5 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #9686d5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #9686d5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9686d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.67:1 | 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 #9686d5 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
#9686d5 reads as cool, modern. 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 #9686d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9686d5-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?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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