Color

#a79ec2

#a79ec2
hex#a79ec2
rgbrgb(167, 158, 194)
hslhsl(255, 23%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.053 296.5)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3656

Colors that go with #a79ec2

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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#b9c29e

#9ea7c2 · #b99ec2

#c2a79e · #9ec2a7

Split-complementary

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#c2b99e · #a7c29e

#c29ea7 · #b9c29e · #9ec2b9

Contrast

#a79ec2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #796ca3 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5181 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79ec2 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 #a79ec2
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 #a79ec2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79ec2-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md