Color

#a8a8cd

#a8a8cd
hex#a8a8cd
rgbrgb(168, 168, 205)
hslhsl(240, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.053 285)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4074

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cdcda8

#a8bacd · #baa8cd

#cda8a8 · #a8cda8

Split-complementary

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#cdbaa8 · #bacda8

#cda8ba · #cdcda8 · #a8cdba

Contrast

#a8a8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d6dab as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #52528e as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a8cd 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

#a8a8cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a8cd
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 #a8a8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a8cd-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md