Color
#a8617c
#a8617crgb(168, 97, 124)hsl(337, 29%, 52%)oklch(0.581 0.097 356.3)Colors that go with #a8617c
Charcoal, Champagne and Peru 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a8617c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a8617c, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #a8617c, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #a8617c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #a8617c in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Mushroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a8617c in 18 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Clean Beauty, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #a8617c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a8617c in 3 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a8617c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8617c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.67:1 | 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 #a8617c 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
#a8617c 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 #a8617c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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