Color

#a996df

#a996df
hex#a996df
rgbrgb(169, 150, 223)
hslhsl(256, 53%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.106 295.6)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3558

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbdf96

#96a7df · #ce96df

#dfa996 · #96dfa9

Split-complementary

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#dfce96 · #a7df96

#df96a7 · #cbdf96 · #96dfce

Contrast

#a996df as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8063cf as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #603cc3 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a996df 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

#a996df reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a996df
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 #a996df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a996df-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md