Color

#a99ee5

#a99ee5
hex#a99ee5
rgbrgb(169, 158, 229)
hslhsl(249, 58%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.102 290.8)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3855

Colors that go with #a99ee5

Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Amber 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

Open in tool →

#dbe59e

#9eb7e5 · #cc9ee5

#e5a99e · #9ee5a9

Split-complementary

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#e5cc9e · #b7e59e

#e59eb7 · #dbe59e · #9ee5cc

Contrast

#a99ee5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7766d6 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #533ecc as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99ee5 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

#a99ee5 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99ee5
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 #a99ee5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99ee5-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md