Color

#c17ce4

#c17ce4
hex#c17ce4
rgbrgb(193, 124, 228)
hslhsl(280, 66%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.162 313.4)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3135

Colors that go with #c17ce4

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fe47c

#8d7ce4 · #e47cd3

#e4c17c · #7ce4c1

Split-complementary

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#d3e47c · #7ce48d

#e48d7c · #9fe47c · #7cd3e4

Contrast

#c17ce4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a949da as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8625b6 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c17ce4 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

#c17ce4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c17ce4
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #c17ce4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c17ce4-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md