Color
#c178e8
#c178e8rgb(193, 120, 232)hsl(279, 71%, 69%)oklch(0.694 0.173 312.7)Colors that go with #c178e8
Medium Sea Green, Amber 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #c178e8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c178e8 in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #c178e8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #c178e8 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
triadicshippedLight Sea Green completes a triad with #c178e8 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #c178e8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedTwo real palettes: Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #c178e8, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #c178e8's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #c178e8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c178e8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.12:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c178e8 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
#c178e8 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 #c178e8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c178e8-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?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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