Color

#a396b0

#a396b0
hex#a396b0
rgbrgb(163, 150, 176)
hslhsl(270, 14%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.04 307.8)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3273

Colors that go with #a396b0

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #a396b0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3b096

#9696b0 · #b096b0

#b0a396 · #96b0a3

Split-complementary

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#b0b096 · #96b096

#b09696 · #a3b096 · #96b0b0

Contrast

#a396b0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #806e91 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #61536e as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a396b0 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a396b0
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 #a396b0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a396b0-b59cc4-c9cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md