Color
#aa88bf
#aa88bfrgb(170, 136, 191)hsl(277, 30%, 64%)oklch(0.678 0.088 312.2)Colors that go with #aa88bf
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Emerald Green 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 #aa88bf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #aa88bf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #aa88bf in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Obsidian's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #aa88bf — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #aa88bf: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #aa88bf in 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #aa88bf 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 #aa88bf, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #aa88bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aa88bf 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 #aa88bf 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 #aa88bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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