Color

#a40ecd

#a40ecd
hex#a40ecd
rgbrgb(164, 14, 205)
hslhsl(287, 87%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.536 0.256 316.4)
Closest name: Ferocious Fuchsia (#aa00cc)Relative luminance 0.1261

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#38cd0e

#440ecd · #cd0e97

#cda40e · #0ecda4

Split-complementary

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#97cd0e · #0ecd44

#cd440e · #38cd0e · #0e97cd

Contrast

#a40ecd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #910db5 as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
3.52:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #be11ee as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #d666f4 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a40ecd 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

#a40ecd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a40ecd
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 #a40ecd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a40ecd-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md