Color

#a178f2

#a178f2
hex#a178f2
rgbrgb(161, 120, 242)
hslhsl(260, 82%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.177 296.8)
Closest name: Periwinkle (#8e82fe)Relative luminance 0.2742

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c9f278

#788df2 · #dd78f2

#f2a178 · #78f2a1

Split-complementary

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#f2dd78 · #8df278

#f2788d · #c9f278 · #78f2dd

Contrast

#a178f2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8753ee as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #6320e9 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.48:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a782f3 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a178f2 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

#a178f2 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a178f2
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 #a178f2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a178f2-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md