Color

#a8abcd

#a8abcd
hex#a8abcd
rgbrgb(168, 171, 205)
hslhsl(235, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.049 281.2)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4186

Colors that go with #a8abcd

Charcoal, Sand 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cdcaa8

#a8bdcd · #b7a8cd

#cda8ab · #abcda8

Split-complementary

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#cdb7a8 · #bdcda8

#cda8bd · #cdcaa8 · #a8cdb7

Contrast

#a8abcd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d72ab as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5388 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8abcd 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

#a8abcd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8abcd
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 #a8abcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8abcd-9e9cc4-df8d4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md