Color
#a77dbf
#a77dbfrgb(167, 125, 191)hsl(278, 34%, 62%)oklch(0.655 0.106 312.7)Colors that go with #a77dbf
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a77dbf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a77dbf, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a77dbf in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #a77dbf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a77dbf in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #a77dbf, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a77dbf in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a77dbf: 3 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a77dbf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a77dbf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.32:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.33:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a77dbf as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a77dbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a77dbf-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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