Color

#c517cf

#c517cf
hex#c517cf
rgbrgb(197, 23, 207)
hslhsl(297, 80%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.59 0.265 325.6)
Closest name: Awkward Purple (#d208cc)Relative luminance 0.1699

Colors that go with #c517cf

Forest Green, Dark Cyan 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.

Real palettes that use #c517cf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#20cf17

#6a17cf · #cf177c

#cfc517 · #17cfc5

Split-complementary

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#7ccf17 · #17cf6a

#cf6a17 · #20cf17 · #177ccf

Contrast

#c517cf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9a12a1 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ca17d3 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #e55aed as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c517cf 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

#c517cf reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c517cf
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 #c517cf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c517cf-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md