Color

#a5abd9

#a5abd9
hex#a5abd9
rgbrgb(165, 171, 217)
hslhsl(233, 41%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.066 278.9)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4213

Colors that go with #a5abd9

Charcoal, Sand and Amber lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d9d3a5

#a5c5d9 · #b9a5d9

#d9a5ab · #abd9a5

Split-complementary

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#d9b9a5 · #c5d9a5

#d9a5c5 · #d9d3a5 · #a5d9b9

Contrast

#a5abd9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #646fbe as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #4550a5 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5abd9 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

#a5abd9 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5abd9
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a5abd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5abd9-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md