Color
#ad56eb
#ad56ebrgb(173, 86, 235)hsl(275, 79%, 63%)oklch(0.626 0.22 308.2)Colors that go with #ad56eb
Olive Drab, Sea Green and Charcoal 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.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #ad56eb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #ad56eb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ad56eb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #ad56eb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
shippedLight Sea Green shows up next to #ad56eb in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Circuit, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ad56eb in two real palettes: Loom's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ad56eb in two real palettes: Loom's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
triadicCopper completes a triad with #ad56eb — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #ad56eb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ad56eb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.96:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.31:1 | 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 #ad56eb 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
#ad56eb reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #ad56eb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ad56eb-b89cc4-c0cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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