Color

#a1817d

#a1817d
hex#a1817d
rgbrgb(161, 129, 125)
hslhsl(7, 16%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.632 0.04 26.5)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2476

Colors that go with #a1817d

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #a1817d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d9da1

#a17d8b · #a1937d

#7da181 · #817da1

Split-complementary

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#7da193 · #7d8ba1

#8ba17d · #7d9da1 · #937da1

Contrast

#a1817d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.53:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916e69 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6a514d as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab8f8c as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a1817d 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

#a1817d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1817d
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 #a1817d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1817d-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md