Color

#c97de3

#c97de3
hex#c97de3
rgbrgb(201, 125, 227)
hslhsl(285, 65%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.163 317.1)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3263

Colors that go with #c97de3

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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#96e37d

#967de3 · #e37dca

#e3ca7d · #7de3ca

Split-complementary

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#cae37d · #7de396

#e3967d · #96e37d · #7dcae3

Contrast

#c97de3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b242d7 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8b25ad as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c97de3 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

#c97de3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c97de3
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 #c97de3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c97de3-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md