Color
#997ed3
#997ed3rgb(153, 126, 211)hsl(259, 49%, 66%)oklch(0.653 0.126 297.4)Colors that go with #997ed3
Charcoal, Olive Drab and Midnight Blue 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 #997ed3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #997ed3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #997ed3 in 6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #997ed3 in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #997ed3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #997ed3 in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #997ed3 in 3 real palettes, including Netlify's brand system and Sentry's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #997ed3 in 3 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #997ed3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #997ed3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.28:1 | 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 #997ed3 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
#997ed3 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #997ed3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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