Color
#8d7396
#8d7396rgb(141, 115, 150)hsl(285, 14%, 52%)oklch(0.593 0.06 317.3)Colors that go with #8d7396
Charcoal, Copper and Sea Green 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 #8d7396: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #8d7396 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #8d7396 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8d7396, as that palette's text colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8d7396, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln put Peru beside #8d7396, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8d7396 in 16 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Typewriter, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Estate put Blush Pink beside #8d7396, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8d7396
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d7396 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.03:1 | 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 #8d7396 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #8d7396 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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