Color
#986c9d
#986c9drgb(152, 108, 157)hsl(294, 20%, 52%)oklch(0.594 0.089 323.1)Colors that go with #986c9d
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 #986c9d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #986c9d 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 #986c9d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #986c9d in 11 real palettes, including Typewriter and Graphite Mono, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #986c9d, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped3 real palettes, including Graphite and Campus put Orange beside #986c9d, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped3 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Estate put Peru beside #986c9d, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #986c9d in 3 real palettes, including Semrush's brand system and Gallery, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #986c9d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #986c9d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.97:1 | 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 #986c9d 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 #986c9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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