Color
#8a6a8a
#8a6a8argb(138, 106, 138)hsl(300, 13%, 48%)oklch(0.567 0.062 326.4)Colors that go with #8a6a8a
Charcoal, Sea Green and Blush Pink 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 text near-black for #8a6a8a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #8a6a8a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #8a6a8a, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a6a8a, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a6a8a: 4 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a6a8a in 4 real palettes, including Semrush's brand system and Gallery, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a6a8a: 5 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a6a8a in 18 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Greige, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8a6a8a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a6a8a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.51:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a6a8a as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#8a6a8a 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 #8a6a8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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