Color
#816a7d
#816a7drgb(129, 106, 125)hsl(310, 10%, 46%)oklch(0.553 0.04 332)Colors that go with #816a7d
Charcoal, Sea Green and Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #816a7d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #816a7d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #816a7d: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #816a7d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #816a7d: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #816a7d: 4 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #816a7d in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #816a7d in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #816a7d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #816a7d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.29:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #816a7d as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#816a7d reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #816a7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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