Color
#a28ebe
#a28ebergb(162, 142, 190)hsl(265, 27%, 65%)oklch(0.681 0.073 303.6)Colors that go with #a28ebe
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Peru 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 #a28ebe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #a28ebe in 5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #a28ebe — 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 #a28ebe in 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Ink Wash, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #a28ebe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #a28ebe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementshippedDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #a28ebe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a28ebe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a28ebe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.15:1 | 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 #a28ebe 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 #a28ebe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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