Color
#8a5c72
#8a5c72rgb(138, 92, 114)hsl(331, 20%, 45%)oklch(0.531 0.067 349.4)Colors that go with #8a5c72
Charcoal, Teal and Champagne 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 #8a5c72: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a5c72 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8a5c72, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #8a5c72 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #8a5c72 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5c72 in 5 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a5c72 in 5 real palettes, including Gallery and Semrush's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8a5c72
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5c72 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.45:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.85:1 | 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 #8a5c72 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#8a5c72 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 #8a5c72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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