Color

#990acd

#990acd
hex#990acd
rgbrgb(153, 10, 205)
hslhsl(284, 91%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.519 0.254 312.8)
Closest name: darkviolet (#9400d3)Relative luminance 0.114

Colors that go with #990acd

Denim, Forest Green and Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #990acd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3ecd0a

#370acd · #cd0a9f

#cd990a · #0acd99

Split-complementary

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#9fcd0a · #0acd37

#cd370a · #3ecd0a · #0a9fcd

Contrast

#990acd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8e09be as the text (7.16:1)
Aaon black
3.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ba1af4 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #d268f8 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.54:1)

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

#990acd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #990acd
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 #990acd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/990acd-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md