Color

#a79ddd

#a79ddd
hex#a79ddd
rgbrgb(167, 157, 221)
hslhsl(249, 48%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.092 291.1)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3755

Colors that go with #a79ddd

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 →

#d3dd9d

#9db3dd · #c69ddd

#dda69d · #9ddda6

Split-complementary

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#ddc69d · #b3dd9d

#dd9db3 · #d3dd9d · #9dddc6

Contrast

#a79ddd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7768ca as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5542bd as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79ddd 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

#a79ddd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79ddd
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 #a79ddd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79ddd-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md