Color

#c96ce5

#c96ce5
hex#c96ce5
rgbrgb(201, 108, 229)
hslhsl(286, 70%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.192 317.9)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.288

Colors that go with #c96ce5

Medium Sea Green, Light Sea Green and Medium Slate Blue 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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#88e56c

#8c6ce5 · #e56cc5

#e5c96c · #6ce5c9

Split-complementary

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#c5e56c · #6ce58c

#e58c6c · #88e56c · #6cc5e5

Contrast

#c96ce5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b538dc as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #8c1fad as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #cc74e7 as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c96ce5 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

#c96ce5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c96ce5
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 #c96ce5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c96ce5-bd9fc1-adcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md