Color
#9b7eae
#9b7eaergb(155, 126, 174)hsl(276, 23%, 59%)oklch(0.637 0.077 311.6)Colors that go with #9b7eae
Charcoal, Copper 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 #9b7eae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9b7eae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #9b7eae, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9b7eae: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9b7eae in 15 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9b7eae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementshippedDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #9b7eae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9b7eae: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9b7eae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9b7eae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.51:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.99:1 | 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 #9b7eae 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 #9b7eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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