Color

#a38cd4

#a38cd4
hex#a38cd4
rgbrgb(163, 140, 212)
hslhsl(259, 46%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.106 298.2)
Closest name: Petrified Purple (#9c87c1)Relative luminance 0.313

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdd48c

#8c99d4 · #c78cd4

#d4a38c · #8cd4a3

Split-complementary

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#d4c78c · #99d48c

#d48c99 · #bdd48c · #8cd4c7

Contrast

#a38cd4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8263c5 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6642b3 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a38cd4 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

#a38cd4 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38cd4
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 #a38cd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38cd4-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md