Color
#8d496c
#8d496crgb(141, 73, 108)hsl(329, 32%, 42%)oklch(0.5 0.102 349.2)Colors that go with #8d496c
Teal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8d496c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8d496c, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8d496c: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8d496c in 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Subaru's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8d496c in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Semrush's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8d496c: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #8d496c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d496c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8d496c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d496c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.36:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.3:1 | 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 #8d496c 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
#8d496c 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 #8d496c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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