Color

#a79ab1

#a79ab1
hex#a79ab1
rgbrgb(167, 154, 177)
hslhsl(274, 13%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.036 310.6)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.345

Colors that go with #a79ab1

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #a79ab1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4b19a

#9c9ab1 · #b19ab0

#b1a79a · #9ab1a7

Split-complementary

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#b0b19a · #9ab19c

#b19c9a · #a4b19a · #9ab0b1

Contrast

#a79ab1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #826f90 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #60526b as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79ab1 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79ab1
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 #a79ab1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79ab1-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md