CSS color
darkorchid
#9932ccrgb(153, 50, 204)hsl(280, 61%, 50%)oklch(0.541 0.227 311.5)Darkorchid on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with darkorchid
Olive Drab, 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.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite darkorchid on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of darkorchid: 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 darkorchid: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with darkorchid: 3 real palettes, including Linkedin's brand system and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with darkorchid — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of darkorchid: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
shippedLight Sea Green shows up next to darkorchid in two real palettes: Taco Bell's brand system and Circuit, as the accent.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to darkorchid in two real palettes: monday.com's brand system and ClickUp's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use darkorchid
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| darkorchid as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.7:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.68:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with darkorchid 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
darkorchid 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 #9932cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9932cc-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md