Color
#b17cee
#b17ceergb(177, 124, 238)hsl(268, 77%, 71%)oklch(0.686 0.169 303.7)Colors that go with #b17cee
Medium Sea Green, Amber and 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b17cee 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 #b17cee in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #b17cee, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #b17cee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #b17cee in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b17cee 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 #b17cee — 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 #b17cee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #b17cee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b17cee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.99:1 | 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 #b17cee 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
#b17cee 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 #b17cee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b17cee-b39cc4-dfdc4e-2c1f2d-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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