Color

#a597a2

#a597a2
hex#a597a2
rgbrgb(165, 151, 162)
hslhsl(313, 7%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.023 333)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3274

Colors that go with #a597a2

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #a597a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a59a

#a197a5 · #a5979b

#a2a597 · #97a2a5

Split-complementary

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#9ba597 · #97a5a1

#a5a197 · #97a59a · #979ba5

Contrast

#a597a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #806f7d as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #62555f as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a597a2 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#a597a2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a597a2
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 #a597a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a597a2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md