Color

#a49bb0

#a49bb0
hex#a49bb0
rgbrgb(164, 155, 176)
hslhsl(266, 12%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.032 304.9)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3447

Colors that go with #a49bb0

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.

Real palettes that use #a49bb0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7b09b

#9b9cb0 · #af9bb0

#b0a49b · #9bb0a4

Split-complementary

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#b0af9b · #9cb09b

#b09b9c · #a7b09b · #9bb0af

Contrast

#a49bb0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d708f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5d536a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49bb0 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 #a49bb0
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 #a49bb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49bb0-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md