Color

#a79cbf

#a79cbf
hex#a79cbf
rgbrgb(167, 156, 191)
hslhsl(259, 21%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.052 299.5)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3575

Colors that go with #a79cbf

Charcoal, Burlywood 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4bf9c

#9ca3bf · #b89cbf

#bfa79c · #9cbfa7

Split-complementary

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#bfb89c · #a3bf9c

#bf9ca3 · #b4bf9c · #9cbfb8

Contrast

#a79cbf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e6ea0 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5e517b as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79cbf 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 #a79cbf
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 #a79cbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79cbf-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md