Color

#a49cbf

#a49cbf
hex#a49cbf
rgbrgb(164, 156, 191)
hslhsl(254, 21%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.051 295.5)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3543

Colors that go with #a49cbf

Charcoal, Burlywood 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7bf9c

#9ca5bf · #b59cbf

#bfa49c · #9cbfa4

Split-complementary

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#bfb59c · #a5bf9c

#bf9ca5 · #b7bf9c · #9cbfb5

Contrast

#a49cbf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a6ea0 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5b517b as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49cbf 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 #a49cbf
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 #a49cbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49cbf-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md