Color
#a29bb5
#a29bb5rgb(162, 155, 181)hsl(256, 15%, 66%)oklch(0.704 0.038 297.7)Colors that go with #a29bb5
Charcoal, Copper and Hunter Green 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 #a29bb5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a29bb5: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a29bb5 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 #a29bb5, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #a29bb5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a29bb5: 5 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a29bb5 in 5 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #a29bb5, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a29bb5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a29bb5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.89:1 | 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 #a29bb5 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 #a29bb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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