Color
#a87ebe
#a87ebergb(168, 126, 190)hsl(279, 33%, 62%)oklch(0.657 0.103 313.6)Colors that go with #a87ebe
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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 #a87ebe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #a87ebe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a87ebe in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a87ebe in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #a87ebe, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a87ebe in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a87ebe, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a87ebe: 3 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a87ebe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a87ebe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.28:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.39:1 | 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 #a87ebe 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 #a87ebe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a87ebe-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-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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