Color

#a68ca5

#a68ca5
hex#a68ca5
rgbrgb(166, 140, 165)
hslhsl(302, 13%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.047 327.3)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.2958

Colors that go with #a68ca5

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #a68ca5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ca68d

#9a8ca6 · #a68c98

#a5a68c · #8ca5a6

Split-complementary

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#98a68c · #8ca69a

#a69a8c · #8ca68d · #8c98a6

Contrast

#a68ca5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a6a89 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #685067 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.92:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a88fa8 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a68ca5 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

#a68ca5 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a68ca5
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 #a68ca5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a68ca5-c19fbc-91cb62-2d1f27-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md