Color

#a296ab

#a296ab
hex#a296ab
rgbrgb(162, 150, 171)
hslhsl(274, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.033 310.9)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3243

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fab96

#9896ab · #ab96aa

#aba296 · #96aba2

Split-complementary

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#aaab96 · #96ab98

#ab9896 · #9fab96 · #96aaab

Contrast

#a296ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f6f8b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #605469 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.49:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a296ab as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a296ab
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 #a296ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a296ab-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md