Color

#a498bd

#a498bd
hex#a498bd
rgbrgb(164, 152, 189)
hslhsl(259, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.055 299.8)
Closest name: Enchanted Lilac (#a893c1)Relative luminance 0.3402

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2bd98

#989fbd · #b798bd

#bda498 · #98bda4

Split-complementary

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#bdb798 · #9fbd98

#bd989f · #b2bd98 · #98bdb7

Contrast

#a498bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6da2 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5e507c as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a498bd 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 #a498bd
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 #a498bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a498bd-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md