Color

#c817cf

#c817cf
hex#c817cf
rgbrgb(200, 23, 207)
hslhsl(298, 80%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.594 0.266 326.4)
Closest name: Awkward Purple (#d208cc)Relative luminance 0.174

Colors that go with #c817cf

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 #c817cf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1dcf17

#6d17cf · #cf1779

#cfc817 · #17cfc8

Split-complementary

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#79cf17 · #17cf6d

#cf6d17 · #1dcf17 · #1779cf

Contrast

#c817cf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #97119c as the text (7.3:1)
Aaon black
4.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cd17d3 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #e85aed as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c817cf 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

#c817cf reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c817cf
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 #c817cf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c817cf-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md