Color
#a85d78
#a85d78rgb(168, 93, 120)hsl(338, 30%, 51%)oklch(0.573 0.103 357.9)Colors that go with #a85d78
Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Hunter Green 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a85d78, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a85d78 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a85d78 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Bookshop, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a85d78 in 4 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #a85d78: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a85d78 in 18 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Clean Beauty, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #a85d78 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a85d78: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a85d78
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a85d78 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.5:1 | 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 #a85d78 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#a85d78 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #a85d78 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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