Color

#a172da

#a172da
hex#a172da
rgbrgb(161, 114, 218)
hslhsl(267, 58%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.156 303.2)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2467

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#abda72

#7277da · #d472da

#daa172 · #72daa1

Split-complementary

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#dad472 · #77da72

#da7277 · #abda72 · #72dad4

Contrast

#a172da as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.54:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #905ad3 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #7333c1 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
5.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae86df as the text (7.28:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a172da 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

#a172da reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a172da
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 #a172da and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a172da-b39cc4-dfda4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md