Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#a19cb0
#a19cb0
hex
#a19cb0rgb
rgb(161, 156, 176)hsl
hsl(255, 11%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.703 0.029 297.1)Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3449
Colors that go with #a19cb0
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a19cb0 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a19cb0: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a19cb0: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a19cb0 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a19cb0, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a19cb0: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a19cb0 in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #a19cb0, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a19cb0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a19cb0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a19cb0 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a19cb0
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a19cb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a19cb0-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md