Color

#a656eb

#a656eb
hex#a656eb
rgbrgb(166, 86, 235)
hslhsl(272, 79%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.618 0.218 305.6)
Closest name: Orion Nebula (#a55af4)Relative luminance 0.2076

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ceb56

#5b56eb · #eb56e6

#eba656 · #56eba6

Split-complementary

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#e6eb56 · #56eb5b

#eb5b56 · #9ceb56 · #56e6eb

Contrast

#a656eb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9e48ea as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #7b19d2 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.15:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b97bef as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a656eb 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

#a656eb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a656eb
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 #a656eb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a656eb-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md