Color

#a79cdd

#a79cdd
hex#a79cdd
rgbrgb(167, 156, 221)
hslhsl(250, 49%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.094 291.6)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3721

Colors that go with #a79cdd

Charcoal, Dark Khaki 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

Open in tool →

#d2dd9c

#9cb2dd · #c89cdd

#dda79c · #9cdda7

Split-complementary

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#ddc89c · #b2dd9c

#dd9cb2 · #d2dd9c · #9cddc8

Contrast

#a79cdd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7867cb as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5641be as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79cdd 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

#a79cdd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79cdd
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 #a79cdd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79cdd-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md