Color

#997aa8

#997aa8
hex#997aa8
rgbrgb(153, 122, 168)
hslhsl(280, 21%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.625 0.076 314.5)
Closest name: Aster (#867ba9)Relative luminance 0.2352

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa87a

#827aa8 · #a87aa1

#a8997a · #7aa899

Split-complementary

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#a1a87a · #7aa882

#a8827a · #8aa87a · #7aa1a8

Contrast

#997aa8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.68:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b689c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #684d75 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.63:1)
Aaon black
5.7:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a78db4 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997aa8 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997aa8
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #997aa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997aa8-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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