Color

#a79fb7

#a79fb7
hex#a79fb7
rgbrgb(167, 159, 183)
hslhsl(260, 14%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.035 300.7)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3643

Colors that go with #a79fb7

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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

Open in tool →

#afb79f

#9fa3b7 · #b39fb7

#b7a79f · #9fb7a7

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#b7b39f · #a3b79f

#b79fa3 · #afb79f · #9fb7b3

Contrast

#a79fb7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7194 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5c536e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79fb7 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 #a79fb7
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 #a79fb7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79fb7-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md