Color

#990a8d

#990a8d
hex#990a8d
rgbrgb(153, 10, 141)
hslhsl(305, 88%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.475 0.208 332.6)
Closest name: darkmagenta (#8b008b)Relative luminance 0.0891

Colors that go with #990a8d

Sea Green, Charcoal 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a9916

#5e0a99 · #990a46

#8d990a · #0a8d99

Split-complementary

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#46990a · #0a995e

#995e0a · #0a9916 · #0a4699

Contrast

#990a8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d30dc2 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #f44ee6 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #990a8d 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

#990a8d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #990a8d
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #990a8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/990a8d-c19fba-8ccb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md