Color

#a497dd

#a497dd
hex#a497dd
rgbrgb(164, 151, 221)
hslhsl(251, 51%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.101 292.2)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3525

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d0dd97

#97addd · #c797dd

#dda497 · #97dda4

Split-complementary

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#ddc797 · #addd97

#dd97ad · #d0dd97 · #97ddc7

Contrast

#a497dd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7865cd as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5a42c2 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a497dd 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

#a497dd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a497dd
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 #a497dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a497dd-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md