Color

#a538dc

#a538dc
hex#a538dc
rgbrgb(165, 56, 220)
hslhsl(280, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.573 0.239 311.3)
Closest name: Magenta Affair (#aa44dd)Relative luminance 0.1599

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6edc38

#5338dc · #dc38c0

#dca538 · #38dca5

Split-complementary

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#c0dc38 · #38dc53

#dc5338 · #6edc38 · #38c0dc

Contrast

#a538dc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8721ba as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.2:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ab45de as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #c279e7 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a538dc 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

#a538dc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a538dc
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 #a538dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a538dc-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md