Color
#9976bc
#9976bcrgb(153, 118, 188)hsl(270, 34%, 60%)oklch(0.627 0.109 306.5)Colors that go with #9976bc
Charcoal, Taupe and Olive Drab 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 #9976bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9976bc in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Zed's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9976bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9976bc in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9976bc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #9976bc in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Linear's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9976bc, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9976bc in 3 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9976bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9976bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.7:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.67:1 | 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 #9976bc 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 #9976bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9976bc-b59cc4-c9cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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