Color

#990be0

#990be0
hex#990be0
rgbrgb(153, 11, 224)
hslhsl(280, 91%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.535 0.269 308.2)
Closest name: darkviolet (#9400d3)Relative luminance 0.1239

Colors that go with #990be0

Olive Drab, 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

Open in tool →

#52e00b

#2e0be0 · #e00bbc

#e0990b · #0be099

Split-complementary

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#bce00b · #0be02e

#e02e0b · #52e00b · #0bbce0

Contrast

#990be0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.04:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8809c8 as the text (7.19:1)
Aaon black
3.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b129f5 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #ca6df8 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #990be0 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

#990be0 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #990be0
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 #990be0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/990be0-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md