Color
#af85e5
#af85e5rgb(175, 133, 229)hsl(266, 65%, 71%)oklch(0.695 0.143 303)Colors that go with #af85e5
Medium Sea Green, Royal Blue 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #af85e5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #af85e5 in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #af85e5 in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #af85e5, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #af85e5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #af85e5 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
triadicshippedLight Sea Green completes a triad with #af85e5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #af85e5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af85e5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.31:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #af85e5 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
#af85e5 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #af85e5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/af85e5-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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