Color

#a09cb4

#a09cb4
hex#a09cb4
rgbrgb(160, 156, 180)
hslhsl(250, 14%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.035 293.1)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3455

Colors that go with #a09cb4

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #a09cb4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b0b49c

#9ca4b4 · #ac9cb4

#b4a09c · #9cb4a0

Split-complementary

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#b4ac9c · #a4b49c

#b49ca4 · #b0b49c · #9cb4ac

Contrast

#a09cb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767194 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #58536e as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.91:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a09cb4 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 #a09cb4
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 #a09cb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09cb4-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md