Color

#c179e2

#c179e2
hex#c179e2
rgbrgb(193, 121, 226)
hslhsl(281, 64%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.165 314.4)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.305

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ae279

#8c79e2 · #e279ce

#e2c179 · #79e2c1

Split-complementary

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#cee279 · #79e28c

#e28c79 · #9ae279 · #79cee2

Contrast

#c179e2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a947d7 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #8727b4 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c179e2 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

#c179e2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c179e2
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #c179e2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c179e2-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md