Color

#a596ab

#a596ab
hex#a596ab
rgbrgb(165, 150, 171)
hslhsl(283, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.035 316.4)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3275

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cab96

#9b96ab · #ab96a7

#aba596 · #96aba5

Split-complementary

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#a7ab96 · #96ab9b

#ab9b96 · #9cab96 · #96a7ab

Contrast

#a596ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #836f8b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #605266 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a596ab 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 #a596ab
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 #a596ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a596ab-bb9fc1-b2cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md