Color
#976a9a
#976a9argb(151, 106, 154)hsl(296, 19%, 51%)oklch(0.588 0.089 324.5)Colors that go with #976a9a
Charcoal, Sea Green and Copper 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 #976a9a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #976a9a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #976a9a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln put Peru beside #976a9a, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #976a9a in 12 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Typewriter, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #976a9a, as that palette's text colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #976a9a, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped3 real palettes, including Graphite and Campus put Orange beside #976a9a, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #976a9a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #976a9a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.84:1 | 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 #976a9a as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #976a9a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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