Color

#a855ec

#a855ec
hex#a855ec
rgbrgb(168, 85, 236)
hslhsl(273, 80%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.619 0.221 306.2)
Closest name: Orion Nebula (#a55af4)Relative luminance 0.2088

Colors that go with #a855ec

Olive Drab, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99ec55

#5d55ec · #ec55e5

#eca855 · #55eca8

Split-complementary

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#e5ec55 · #55ec5d

#ec5d55 · #99ec55 · #55e5ec

Contrast

#a855ec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a147eb as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #7f17d3 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
5.18:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bb7af0 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a855ec 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

#a855ec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a855ec
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 #a855ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a855ec-b79cc4-c4cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md