Color

#a08fa3

#a08fa3
hex#a08fa3
rgbrgb(160, 143, 163)
hslhsl(291, 10%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.035 321.2)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.2976

Colors that go with #a08fa3

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #a08fa3

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#92a38f

#968fa3 · #a38f9c

#a3a08f · #8fa3a0

Split-complementary

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#9ca38f · #8fa396

#a3968f · #92a38f · #8f9ca3

Contrast

#a08fa3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #836e87 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #625365 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a392a5 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a08fa3 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a08fa3
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a08fa3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a08fa3-bf9fc1-a4cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md