Color

#c97cf8

#c97cf8
hex#c97cf8
rgbrgb(201, 124, 248)
hslhsl(277, 90%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.188 311.2)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3361

Colors that go with #c97cf8

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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#acf87c

#8b7cf8 · #f87cea

#f8c97c · #7cf8c9

Split-complementary

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#eaf87c · #7cf88b

#f88b7c · #acf87c · #7ceaf8

Contrast

#c97cf8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac38f5 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #850bd0 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c97cf8 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

#c97cf8 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c97cf8
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 #c97cf8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c97cf8-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md