Color

#a8a9cc

#a8a9cc
hex#a8a9cc
rgbrgb(168, 169, 204)
hslhsl(238, 26%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.05 283.8)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4106

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cccba8

#a8bbcc · #b9a8cc

#cca8a9 · #a9cca8

Split-complementary

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#ccb9a8 · #bbcca8

#cca8bb · #cccba8 · #a8ccb9

Contrast

#a8a9cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e70aa as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #51538a as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a9cc 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

#a8a9cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a9cc
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 #a8a9cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a9cc-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md