Color

#a49eb3

#a49eb3
hex#a49eb3
rgbrgb(164, 158, 179)
hslhsl(257, 12%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.031 298.7)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.356

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adb39e

#9ea2b3 · #ae9eb3

#b3a49e · #9eb3a4

Split-complementary

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#b3ae9e · #a2b39e

#b39ea2 · #adb39e · #9eb3ae

Contrast

#a49eb3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79708f as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5c556d as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49eb3 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49eb3
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a49eb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49eb3-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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