Color

#aa9bbb

#aa9bbb
hex#aa9bbb
rgbrgb(170, 155, 187)
hslhsl(268, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.049 306.4)
Closest name: Dripping Wisteria (#bb99bb)Relative luminance 0.3558

Colors that go with #aa9bbb

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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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#acbb9b

#9b9cbb · #ba9bbb

#bbaa9b · #9bbbaa

Split-complementary

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#bbba9b · #9cbb9b

#bb9b9c · #acbb9b · #9bbbba

Contrast

#aa9bbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #836d9c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #625176 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9bbb 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 #aa9bbb
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 #aa9bbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9bbb-b39cc4-dfdc4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md