Color

#9a36bf

#9a36bf
hex#9a36bf
rgbrgb(154, 54, 191)
hslhsl(284, 56%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.537 0.211 315.2)
Closest name: darkorchid (#9932cc)Relative luminance 0.1327

Colors that go with #9a36bf

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 #9a36bf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5abf36

#5636bf · #bf369f

#bf9a36 · #36bf9a

Split-complementary

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#9fbf36 · #36bf56

#bf5636 · #5abf36 · #369fbf

Contrast

#9a36bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.75:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #872fa7 as the text (7.01:1)
Aaon black
3.65:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #aa4ccd as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #c17cda as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9a36bf 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

#9a36bf reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9a36bf
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 #9a36bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9a36bf-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md