Color

#c185ef

#c185ef
hex#c185ef
rgbrgb(193, 133, 239)
hslhsl(274, 77%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.16 309)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3434

Colors that go with #c185ef

Emerald Green, Amber and Medium Sea 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b3ef85

#8c85ef · #ef85e8

#efc185 · #85efc1

Split-complementary

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#e8ef85 · #85ef8c

#ef8c85 · #b3ef85 · #85e8ef

Contrast

#c185ef as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a146e7 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #7f1acb as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c185ef 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

#c185ef reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c185ef
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 #c185ef and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c185ef-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md