Color

#ab9fb2

#ab9fb2
hex#ab9fb2
rgbrgb(171, 159, 178)
hslhsl(278, 11%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.03 313.3)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3667

Colors that go with #ab9fb2

Charcoal, Burlywood and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #ab9fb2

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a6b29f

#a19fb2 · #b29faf

#b2ab9f · #9fb2ab

Split-complementary

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#afb29f · #9fb2a1

#b2a19f · #a6b29f · #9fafb2

Contrast

#ab9fb2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #816f8b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #615469 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9fb2 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 #ab9fb2
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 #ab9fb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9fb2-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md