Color

#a2977c

#a2977c
hex#a2977c
rgbrgb(162, 151, 124)
hslhsl(43, 17%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.679 0.04 88.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3127

Colors that go with #a2977c

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #a2977c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7c87a2

#a2847c · #9aa27c

#7ca297 · #977ca2

Split-complementary

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#7c9aa2 · #847ca2

#7ca284 · #7c87a2 · #a27c9a

Contrast

#a2977c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80765b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5844 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a2977c as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a2977c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a2977c
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 #a2977c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a2977c-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md