Color

#a8a3bd

#a8a3bd
hex#a8a3bd
rgbrgb(168, 163, 189)
hslhsl(252, 16%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.038 294.3)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3819

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b8bda3

#a3abbd · #b5a3bd

#bda8a3 · #a3bda8

Split-complementary

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#bdb5a3 · #abbda3

#bda3ab · #b8bda3 · #a3bdb5

Contrast

#a8a3bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797198 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5473 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.64:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8a3bd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a3bd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #a8a3bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a3bd-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md