Color

#9c166d

#9c166d
hex#9c166d
rgbrgb(156, 22, 109)
hslhsl(321, 75%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.468 0.183 347.4)
Closest name: Haunted Purple (#991177)Relative luminance 0.0875

Colors that go with #9c166d

Denim, Sea Green and Forest Green 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#169c45

#88169c · #9c162a

#6d9c16 · #166d9c

Split-complementary

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#2a9c16 · #169c88

#9c8816 · #169c45 · #162a9c

Contrast

#9c166d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.64:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #db1f99 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #e967bc as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9c166d 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

#9c166d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9c166d
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 #9c166d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c166d-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md