Color

#a497bf

#a497bf
hex#a497bf
rgbrgb(164, 151, 191)
hslhsl(260, 24%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.059 299.7)
Closest name: Enchanted Lilac (#a893c1)Relative luminance 0.3379

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2bf97

#979dbf · #b897bf

#bfa497 · #97bfa4

Split-complementary

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#bfb897 · #9dbf97

#bf979d · #b2bf97 · #97bfb8

Contrast

#a497bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e6aa4 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #604f82 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a497bf 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 #a497bf
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 #a497bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a497bf-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md