Color

#d17aeb

#d17aeb
hex#d17aeb
rgbrgb(209, 122, 235)
hslhsl(286, 74%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.18 318.1)
Closest name: orchid (#da70d6)Relative luminance 0.3347

Colors that go with #d17aeb

Emerald 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#94eb7a

#987aeb · #eb7acd

#ebd17a · #7aebd1

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#cdeb7a · #7aeb98

#eb987a · #94eb7a · #7acdeb

Contrast

#d17aeb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b833e1 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8e1bb1 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d17aeb 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

#d17aeb reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d17aeb
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 #d17aeb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d17aeb-bd9fc1-adcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md