Color

#a8bafa

#a8bafa
hex#a8bafa
rgbrgb(168, 186, 250)
hslhsl(227, 89%, 82%)
oklchoklch(0.798 0.093 272)
Closest name: Purple Illusion (#b8b8f8)Relative luminance 0.5034

Colors that go with #a8bafa

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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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#fae8a8

#a8e3fa · #bfa8fa

#faa8ba · #bafaa8

Split-complementary

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#fabfa8 · #e3faa8

#faa8e3 · #fae8a8 · #a8fabf

Contrast

#a8bafa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4369f4 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #0e3ff1 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.16:1)
Aaon black
11.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8bafa 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

#a8bafa reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8bafa
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 #a8bafa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8bafa-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md