Color

#a09dc8

#a09dc8
hex#a09dc8
rgbrgb(160, 157, 200)
hslhsl(244, 28%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.062 287.9)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3576

Colors that go with #a09dc8

Charcoal, Sand and Burlywood 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c5c89d

#9db0c8 · #b59dc8

#c8a09d · #9dc8a0

Split-complementary

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#c8b59d · #b0c89d

#c89db0 · #c5c89d · #9dc8b5

Contrast

#a09dc8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #746fae as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #555190 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09dc8 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

#a09dc8 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09dc8
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 #a09dc8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09dc8-a39cc4-dfa24e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md