Color

#a165bd

#a165bd
hex#a165bd
rgbrgb(161, 101, 189)
hslhsl(281, 40%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.143 314.2)
Closest name: Amethyst (#9966cc)Relative luminance 0.2056

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#81bd65

#7665bd · #bd65ad

#bda165 · #65bda1

Split-complementary

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#adbd65 · #65bd76

#bd7665 · #81bd65 · #65adbd

Contrast

#a165bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9b5bb9 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #783f92 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #121212 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b586cb as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a165bd 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

#a165bd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a165bd
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 #a165bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a165bd-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md