Color

#afa5e9

#afa5e9
hex#afa5e9
rgbrgb(175, 165, 233)
hslhsl(249, 61%, 78%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.097 290.6)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.4191

Colors that go with #afa5e9

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

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#dfe9a5

#a5bde9 · #d1a5e9

#e9afa5 · #a5e9af

Split-complementary

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#e9d1a5 · #bde9a5

#e9a5bd · #dfe9a5 · #a5e9d1

Contrast

#afa5e9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7563d9 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #543ed0 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afa5e9 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

#afa5e9 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afa5e9
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 #afa5e9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afa5e9-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md