Color

#a997ce

#a997ce
hex#a997ce
rgbrgb(169, 151, 206)
hslhsl(260, 36%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.081 299.3)
Closest name: Enchanted Lilac (#a893c1)Relative luminance 0.3502

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bcce97

#97a0ce · #c597ce

#cea997 · #97cea9

Split-complementary

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#cec597 · #a0ce97

#ce97a0 · #bcce97 · #97cec5

Contrast

#a997ce as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8166b7 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #65499c as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a997ce 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

#a997ce reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a997ce
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 #a997ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a997ce-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md