Color
#9986ee
#9986eergb(153, 134, 238)hsl(251, 75%, 73%)oklch(0.682 0.15 290.2)Colors that go with #9986ee
Amber, 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9986ee in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9986ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9986ee: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #9986ee, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9986ee in 5 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9986ee in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #9986ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #9986ee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9986ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9986ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 7:1 | 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 #9986ee 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
#9986ee reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #9986ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9986ee-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?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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