Color

#a496df

#a496df
hex#a496df
rgbrgb(164, 150, 223)
hslhsl(252, 53%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.106 292.3)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3503

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d0df96

#96acdf · #c996df

#dfa496 · #96dfa4

Split-complementary

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#dfc996 · #acdf96

#df96ac · #d0df96 · #96dfc9

Contrast

#a496df as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7963cf as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5a40c4 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a496df 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

#a496df reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a496df
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 #a496df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a496df-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md