Color

#a8a5d9

#a8a5d9
hex#a8a5d9
rgbrgb(168, 165, 217)
hslhsl(243, 41%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.075 287.1)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4024

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d7d9a5

#a5bdd9 · #c2a5d9

#d9a8a5 · #a5d9a8

Split-complementary

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#d9c2a5 · #bdd9a5

#d9a5bd · #d7d9a5 · #a5d9c2

Contrast

#a8a5d9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #706cc1 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4f4ab0 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a5d9 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

#a8a5d9 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a5d9
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a8a5d9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a5d9-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md