Color
#a38dc4
#a38dc4rgb(163, 141, 196)hsl(264, 32%, 66%)oklch(0.683 0.083 302.6)Colors that go with #a38dc4
Charcoal, Amber and Emerald 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 #a38dc4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a38dc4 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a38dc4 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Obsidian's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a38dc4, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #a38dc4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a38dc4: 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a38dc4 in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a38dc4 in 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #a38dc4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a38dc4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.16:1 | 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 #a38dc4 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 #a38dc4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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