Color
#9f71bc
#9f71bcrgb(159, 113, 188)hsl(277, 36%, 59%)oklch(0.624 0.12 311.5)Colors that go with #9f71bc
Charcoal, Taupe and Olive Drab 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 #9f71bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9f71bc in 5 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9f71bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue is paired with #9f71bc in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9f71bc in 3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9f71bc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementCadet Blue is a split-complement of #9f71bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #9f71bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9f71bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9f71bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.78:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.56:1 | 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 #9f71bc 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
#9f71bc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #9f71bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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