Color

#a596d9

#a596d9
hex#a596d9
rgbrgb(165, 150, 217)
hslhsl(253, 47%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.097 294.1)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3482

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbd996

#96a9d9 · #c696d9

#d9a596 · #96d9a5

Split-complementary

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#d9c696 · #a9d996

#d996a9 · #cbd996 · #96d9c6

Contrast

#a596d9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b65c8 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5c42b8 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a596d9 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

#a596d9 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a596d9
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 #a596d9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a596d9-a99cc4-dfb84e-281f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md