Color
#a285db
#a285dbrgb(162, 133, 219)hsl(260, 54%, 69%)oklch(0.678 0.127 298.5)Colors that go with #a285db
Charcoal, Amber and Midnight Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a285db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a285db in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #a285db in 5 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a285db in 4 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a285db in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #a285db: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #a285db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #a285db in 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a285db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.91:1 | 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 #a285db 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
#a285db reads as cool, modern. 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 #a285db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a285db-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?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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