Color
#976bb3
#976bb3rgb(151, 107, 179)hsl(277, 32%, 56%)oklch(0.601 0.116 311.4)Colors that go with #976bb3
Charcoal, Olive Drab and Orange 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 #976bb3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #976bb3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Orange #ffa500
shippedOrange is paired with #976bb3 in 3 real palettes, including Campus and Sunset Boulevard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #976bb3 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
split-complementDark Cyan is a split-complement of #976bb3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #976bb3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #976bb3 in two real palettes: Klarna US's brand system and ClickUp's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #976bb3 in two real palettes: Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #976bb3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #976bb3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.14:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.07:1 | 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 #976bb3 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 #976bb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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