Color

#a296df

#a296df
hex#a296df
rgbrgb(162, 150, 223)
hslhsl(250, 53%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.106 291)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3482

Colors that go with #a296df

Charcoal, Dark Khaki 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d2df96

#96aedf · #c696df

#dfa296 · #96dfa2

Split-complementary

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#dfc696 · #aedf96

#df96ae · #d2df96 · #96dfc6

Contrast

#a296df as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7867d0 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5640c4 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a296df 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

#a296df reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a296df
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a296df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a296df-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md