Color

#a88aa6

#a88aa6
hex#a88aa6
rgbrgb(168, 138, 166)
hslhsl(304, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.053 328.3)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.2925

Colors that go with #a88aa6

Charcoal, Copper and Powder Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #a88aa6

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aa88c

#9b8aa8 · #a88a97

#a6a88a · #8aa6a8

Split-complementary

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#97a88a · #8aa89b

#a89b8a · #8aa88c · #8a97a8

Contrast

#a88aa6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #906a8d as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6a4e68 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa8da8 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88aa6 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

#a88aa6 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88aa6
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a88aa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88aa6-c19fba-8ecb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md