Named color

Orion Nebula

#a55af4

hex#a55af4

rgbrgb(165, 90, 244)

hslhsl(269, 88%, 65%)

oklchoklch(0.628 0.222 302.9)

Relative luminance 0.2184

Cool Vivid Technical Modern

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Orion Nebula on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 1 public brand that uses it and the palettes it appears in.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

ab66f5 b679f6 bd87f7 c596f8 d0a9f9 d8b7fa e0c5fb e7d4fc f2e7fd faf5fe

Shades — toward black

933af2 841ef1 740ee1 650dc5 570ba8 450986 360769 28054d 190330 0a0113

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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a55af4 a8f457

#a8f457

Analogous

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a55af4 575af4 f257f4

#575af4 · #f257f4

Triadic

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a55af4 f4a357 57f4a3

#f4a357 · #57f4a3

Split-complementary

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a55af4 f4f257 5af457

#f4f257 · #5af457

Tetradic

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a55af4 f4575a a8f457 57f4f2

#f4575a · #a8f457 · #57f4f2

Contrast

Orion Nebula as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	3.91:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #9b49f3 as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #770fe6 as the text (7.01:1) AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.58:1)
Aaon black	5.37:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #b679f6 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Orion Nebula as the background.

Brands using this color

FigmalogoPurple · #a259ff · Δ1.778

Fonts for this mood

Orion Nebula reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Orion Nebula

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #a55af4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a55af4-b49cc4-cbcb62-2c1f2d-e9e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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