Color

#c97dde

#c97dde
hex#c97dde
rgbrgb(201, 125, 222)
hslhsl(287, 60%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.158 318.7)
Closest name: orchid (#da70d6)Relative luminance 0.3236

Colors that go with #c97dde

Medium Sea Green, Amber and Light 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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#92de7c

#987cde · #de7cc3

#dec97c · #7cdec9

Split-complementary

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#c3de7c · #7cde98

#de987c · #92de7c · #7cc3de

Contrast

#c97dde as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b243d0 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #8929a3 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c97dde 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

#c97dde reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c97dde
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 #c97dde and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c97dde-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md