Color

#a997d8

#a997d8
hex#a997d8
rgbrgb(169, 151, 216)
hslhsl(257, 45%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.095 296.6)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3553

Colors that go with #a997d8

Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky Blue 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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#c6d897

#97a5d8 · #ca97d8

#d8aa97 · #97d8aa

Split-complementary

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#d8ca97 · #a5d897

#d897a5 · #c6d897 · #97d8ca

Contrast

#a997d8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f64c4 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6343b1 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a997d8 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

#a997d8 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a997d8
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 #a997d8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a997d8-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md