Color
#ab9bc5
#ab9bc5rgb(171, 155, 197)hsl(263, 27%, 69%)oklch(0.718 0.063 302.2)Colors that go with #ab9bc5
Charcoal, Copper and Deep Sky 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 #ab9bc5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ab9bc5: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #ab9bc5: 5 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ab9bc5 in 5 real palettes, including Supabase's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #ab9bc5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ab9bc5: 5 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ab9bc5 in 5 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #ab9bc5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ab9bc5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab9bc5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.23:1 | 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 #ab9bc5 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 #ab9bc5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ab9bc5-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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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