Color

#9a23cd

#9a23cd
hex#9a23cd
rgbrgb(154, 35, 205)
hslhsl(282, 71%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.532 0.242 312.4)
Closest name: darkorchid (#9932cc)Relative luminance 0.1248

Colors that go with #9a23cd

Forest Green, Sea 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 #9a23cd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#56cd23

#4523cd · #cd23ab

#cd9a23 · #23cd9a

Split-complementary

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#abcd23 · #23cd45

#cd4523 · #56cd23 · #23abcd

Contrast

#9a23cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a1fb7 as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black
3.5:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #af3fde as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #c678e8 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9a23cd 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

#9a23cd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9a23cd
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 #9a23cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9a23cd-ba9fc1-b4cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md