Color
#b178ed
#b178edrgb(177, 120, 237)hsl(269, 76%, 70%)oklch(0.68 0.174 304.7)Colors that go with #b178ed
Medium Sea Green, Amber and Charcoal 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b178ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b178ed in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #b178ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b178ed in 3 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
triadicshippedLight Sea Green completes a triad with #b178ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #b178ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedTwo real palettes: Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #b178ed, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b178ed in two real palettes: Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b178ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b178ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.1:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.78:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b178ed 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
#b178ed reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #b178ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b178ed-b49cc4-cbcb62-2c1f2d-e9e9f1?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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