Color
#a49cba
#a49cbargb(164, 156, 186)hsl(256, 18%, 67%)oklch(0.71 0.044 297.5)Colors that go with #a49cba
Charcoal, Copper 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 #a49cba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a49cba: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a49cba in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a49cba in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a49cba, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #a49cba — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a49cba: 5 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a49cba in 6 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a49cba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a49cba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.04:1 | 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 #a49cba 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 #a49cba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a49cba-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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