Color
#a178ed
#a178edrgb(161, 120, 237)hsl(261, 76%, 70%)oklch(0.664 0.171 297.8)Colors that go with #a178ed
Olive Drab, Medium Sea Green and Amber lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #a178ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #a178ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a178ed in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a178ed in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
triadicshippedLight Sea Green completes a triad with #a178ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #a178ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedTwo real palettes: Spotify's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system put Blue beside #a178ed, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the text near-black for #a178ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #a178ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a178ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.27:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.42:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a178ed 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
#a178ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a178ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a178ed-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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