Color
#aa87c5
#aa87c5rgb(170, 135, 197)hsl(274, 35%, 65%)oklch(0.679 0.097 309.7)Colors that go with #aa87c5
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #aa87c5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #aa87c5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #aa87c5: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #aa87c5 in 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #aa87c5 in 3 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #aa87c5, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aa87c5: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aa87c5: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aa87c5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aa87c5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.98:1 | 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 #aa87c5 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
#aa87c5 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #aa87c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aa87c5-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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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