Color

#997ea5

#997ea5
hex#997ea5
rgbrgb(153, 126, 165)
hslhsl(282, 18%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.632 0.065 315.3)
Closest name: Amorous (#967d96)Relative luminance 0.2441

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a57e

#867ea5 · #a57e9d

#a5997e · #7ea599

Split-complementary

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#9da57e · #7ea586

#a5867e · #89a57e · #7e9da5

Contrast

#997ea5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #896996 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #684f72 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a58db0 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997ea5 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 #997ea5
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 #997ea5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997ea5-ba9fc1-b4cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md