Color

#a172fd

#a172fd
hex#a172fd
rgbrgb(161, 114, 253)
hslhsl(260, 97%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.199 296.1)
Closest name: Periwinkle (#8e82fe)Relative luminance 0.267

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cffd72

#7289fd · #e672fd

#fda172 · #72fda1

Split-complementary

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#fde672 · #89fd72

#fd7289 · #cffd72 · #72fde6

Contrast

#a172fd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.31:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #894ffc as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6013fb as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab81fd as the text (7.29:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a172fd 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

#a172fd reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a172fd
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 #a172fd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a172fd-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md