Color
#d161ea
#d161eargb(209, 97, 234)hsl(289, 77%, 65%)oklch(0.682 0.217 320)Colors that go with #d161ea
Medium Sea Green, Light Sea Green and Charcoal 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #d161ea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementshippedLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #d161ea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #d161ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #d161ea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Purple #9370db
analogousshippedMedium Purple is #d161ea's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #d161ea in two real palettes: Obsidian's brand system and Lavender Haze, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #d161ea in two real palettes: Loom's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d161ea in Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #d161ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d161ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.61:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d161ea 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
#d161ea reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #d161ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d161ea-be9fc1-a8cb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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