Color

#a6878d

#a6878d
hex#a6878d
rgbrgb(166, 135, 141)
hslhsl(348, 15%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.654 0.039 5.2)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2736

Colors that go with #a6878d

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #a6878d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87a6a0

#a6879d · #a69087

#8da687 · #878da6

Split-complementary

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#87a690 · #879da6

#9da687 · #87a6a0 · #9087a6

Contrast

#a6878d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c74 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5056 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9095 as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a6878d 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

#a6878d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6878d
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 #a6878d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6878d-c49c9f-62cb83-2d231f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md