Color

#a72cd8

#a72cd8
hex#a72cd8
rgbrgb(167, 44, 216)
hslhsl(283, 69%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.564 0.248 313.6)
Closest name: darkorchid (#9932cc)Relative luminance 0.1497

Colors that go with #a72cd8

Forest Green, Sea Green and Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #a72cd8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5dd82c

#512cd8 · #d82cb3

#d8a72c · #2cd8a7

Split-complementary

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#b3d82c · #2cd851

#d8512c · #5dd82c · #2cb3d8

Contrast

#a72cd8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.26:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b21b5 as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
3.99:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #af3ddb as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #c675e6 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.61:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a72cd8 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

#a72cd8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a72cd8
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 #a72cd8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a72cd8-bb9fc1-b2cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md