Color

#a042bd

#a042bd
hex#a042bd
rgbrgb(160, 66, 189)
hslhsl(286, 48%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.557 0.197 317.3)
Closest name: Fuchsia Pheromone (#9f4cb7)Relative luminance 0.1504

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5fbd42

#6342bd · #bd429c

#bda042 · #42bda0

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#9cbd42 · #42bd63

#bd6342 · #5fbd42 · #429cbd

Contrast

#a042bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.24:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #83369b as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
4.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a851c2 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #be7fd2 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a042bd 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

#a042bd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a042bd
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 #a042bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a042bd-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