Color
#ab496c
#ab496crgb(171, 73, 108)hsl(339, 40%, 48%)oklch(0.543 0.133 0.1)Colors that go with #ab496c
Dark Olive Green, Teal and Crimson 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #ab496c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #ab496c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ab496c in 7 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ab496c: 8 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ab496c in 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Coinbase's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #ab496c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Noir Beauty put Slate Gray beside #ab496c, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ab496c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #ab496c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab496c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.38:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.9:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab496c 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
#ab496c reads as warm. 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 #ab496c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ab496c-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?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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