Color
#aa8cc5
#aa8cc5rgb(170, 140, 197)hsl(272, 33%, 66%)oklch(0.688 0.088 308.2)Colors that go with #aa8cc5
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Midnight 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 #aa8cc5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #aa8cc5 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #aa8cc5, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #aa8cc5 — 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 #aa8cc5: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #aa8cc5 in 11 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #aa8cc5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #aa8cc5 in 3 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #aa8cc5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aa8cc5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.27:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #aa8cc5 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 #aa8cc5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aa8cc5-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-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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