Color
#a28ea9
#a28ea9rgb(162, 142, 169)hsl(284, 14%, 61%)oklch(0.673 0.045 317.3)Colors that go with #a28ea9
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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 for #a28ea9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #a28ea9 in 5 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #a28ea9 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #a28ea9 in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #a28ea9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #a28ea9 in 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #a28ea9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #a28ea9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a28ea9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.98:1 | 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 #a28ea9 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 #a28ea9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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