Color
#a265ae
#a265aergb(162, 101, 174)hsl(290, 31%, 54%)oklch(0.6 0.127 320.9)Colors that go with #a265ae
Sea Green, Charcoal and Dark Cyan 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #a265ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a265ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
split-complementDark Cyan is a split-complement of #a265ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Olive Green #808000
split-complementOlive Green is a split-complement of #a265ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #a265ae in two real palettes: Klarna US's brand system and ClickUp's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a265ae in two real palettes: Superhuman's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
triadicCopper completes a triad with #a265ae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #a265ae in Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #a265ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a265ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.19:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a265ae as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a265ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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