Color

#a499db

#a499db
hex#a499db
rgbrgb(164, 153, 219)
hslhsl(250, 48%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.095 291.4)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3579

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d0db99

#99afdb · #c599db

#dba499 · #99dba4

Split-complementary

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#dbc599 · #afdb99

#db99af · #d0db99 · #99dbc5

Contrast

#a499db as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7868ca as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5742bd as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a499db 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

#a499db reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a499db
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 #a499db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a499db-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md