Color

#a39bb5

#a39bb5
hex#a39bb5
rgbrgb(163, 155, 181)
hslhsl(258, 15%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.038 299.5)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3457

Colors that go with #a39bb5

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.

Real palettes that use #a39bb5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeb59b

#9ba0b5 · #b09bb5

#b5a39b · #9bb5a3

Split-complementary

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#b5b09b · #a0b59b

#b59ba0 · #aeb59b · #9bb5b0

Contrast

#a39bb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b6f95 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5b526f as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.91:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a39bb5 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 #a39bb5
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 #a39bb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a39bb5-ad9cc4-dfc44e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md