Color

#a496ca

#a496ca
hex#a496ca
rgbrgb(164, 150, 202)
hslhsl(256, 33%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.076 296.7)
Closest name: Enchanted Lilac (#a893c1)Relative luminance 0.3397

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bcca96

#96a2ca · #be96ca

#caa496 · #96caa4

Split-complementary

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#cabe96 · #a2ca96

#ca96a2 · #bcca96 · #96cabe

Contrast

#a496ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e6ab4 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5f4b95 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a496ca 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 #a496ca
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 #a496ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a496ca-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md