Color

#c96aec

#c96aec
hex#c96aec
rgbrgb(201, 106, 236)
hslhsl(284, 77%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.203 316.1)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.2878

Colors that go with #c96aec

Medium Sea Green, Light Sea Green and Dark Goldenrod 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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#8dec6a

#886aec · #ec6acd

#ecc96a · #6aecc9

Split-complementary

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#cdec6a · #6aec88

#ec886a · #8dec6a · #6acdec

Contrast

#c96aec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b534e5 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #8e18b9 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #cb6fec as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c96aec 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

#c96aec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c96aec
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 #c96aec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c96aec-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md