Color

#a9afda

#a9afda
hex#a9afda
rgbrgb(169, 175, 218)
hslhsl(233, 40%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.062 278.6)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4416

Colors that go with #a9afda

Charcoal, Sand 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

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#dad5a9

#a9c8da · #bca9da

#daa9af · #afdaa9

Split-complementary

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#dabca9 · #c8daa9

#daa9c8 · #dad5a9 · #a9dabc

Contrast

#a9afda as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6570bd as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4651a4 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.83:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9afda 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

#a9afda reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9afda
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 #a9afda and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9afda-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md