Color

#b179ec

#b179ec
hex#b179ec
rgbrgb(177, 121, 236)
hslhsl(269, 75%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.171 304.8)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.2908

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4ec79

#797bec · #ea79ec

#ecb179 · #79ecb1

Split-complementary

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#ecea79 · #7bec79

#ec797b · #b4ec79 · #79ecea

Contrast

#b179ec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #964ce6 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #771fd6 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b37eed as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b179ec 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

#b179ec reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b179ec
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 #b179ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b179ec-b49cc4-cbcb62-2c1f2d-e9e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md