Color

#b16ede

#b16ede
hex#b16ede
rgbrgb(177, 110, 222)
hslhsl(276, 63%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.172 310.1)
Closest name: Lavender (#b56edc)Relative luminance 0.2577

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bde6e

#796ede · #de6ed3

#deb16e · #6edeb1

Split-complementary

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#d3de6e · #6ede79

#de796e · #9bde6e · #6ed3de

Contrast

#b16ede as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.41:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a150d7 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #812abb as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.15:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ba7ee2 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b16ede 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

#b16ede reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b16ede
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b16ede and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b16ede-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md