Color

#a178de

#a178de
hex#a178de
rgbrgb(161, 120, 222)
hslhsl(264, 61%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.152 300.9)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2628

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5de78

#7882de · #d478de

#dea178 · #78dea1

Split-complementary

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#ded478 · #82de78

#de7882 · #b5de78 · #78ded4

Contrast

#a178de as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.36:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d5bd7 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6e31c9 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.26:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a984e1 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a178de 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

#a178de reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a178de
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 #a178de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a178de-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md