Color
#a87ab8
#a87ab8rgb(168, 122, 184)hsl(285, 30%, 60%)oklch(0.647 0.103 317.1)Colors that go with #a87ab8
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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 text near-black for #a87ab8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a87ab8, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a87ab8 in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #a87ab8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a87ab8 in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #a87ab8 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a87ab8 in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementCadet Blue is a split-complement of #a87ab8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a87ab8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a87ab8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.42:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.14:1 | 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 #a87ab8 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #a87ab8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a87ab8-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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