Color
#a38ea4
#a38ea4rgb(163, 142, 164)hsl(297, 11%, 60%)oklch(0.673 0.04 324.6)Colors that go with #a38ea4
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 #a38ea4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #a38ea4 in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #a38ea4 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #a38ea4 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #a38ea4 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Still Water, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #a38ea4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a38ea4 in 3 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #a38ea4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a38ea4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.96:1 | 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 #a38ea4 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 #a38ea4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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