Color
#9f89bd
#9f89bdrgb(159, 137, 189)hsl(265, 28%, 64%)oklch(0.669 0.079 303.7)Colors that go with #9f89bd
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Emerald 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9f89bd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #9f89bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #9f89bd in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Obsidian's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9f89bd, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #9f89bd — 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 #9f89bd: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9f89bd in 11 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9f89bd in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9f89bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9f89bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.79:1 | 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 #9f89bd 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 #9f89bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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