Color
#9c8eb4
#9c8eb4rgb(156, 142, 180)hsl(262, 20%, 63%)oklch(0.672 0.057 301.7)Colors that go with #9c8eb4
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 #9c8eb4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9c8eb4: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9c8eb4, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #9c8eb4 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9c8eb4: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9c8eb4 in 20 real palettes, including Dusk and Stone, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #9c8eb4 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 #9c8eb4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9c8eb4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9c8eb4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.94:1 | 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 #9c8eb4 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 #9c8eb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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