Color
#a87eae
#a87eaergb(168, 126, 174)hsl(293, 23%, 59%)oklch(0.65 0.085 322.2)Colors that go with #a87eae
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a87eae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #a87eae in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #a87eae in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #a87eae in 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a87eae in 14 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #a87eae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a87eae in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #a87eae in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #a87eae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a87eae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.35:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.26:1 | 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 #a87eae 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 #a87eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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