Color
#a696d4
#a696d4rgb(166, 150, 212)hsl(255, 42%, 71%)oklch(0.71 0.091 295.9)Colors that go with #a696d4
Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a696d4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a696d4 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a696d4: 5 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a696d4: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a696d4, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #a696d4 in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a696d4: 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #a696d4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a696d4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.65:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.93:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a696d4 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
#a696d4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a696d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a696d4-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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