Color
#b17dba
#b17dbargb(177, 125, 186)hsl(291, 31%, 61%)oklch(0.663 0.105 321.5)Colors that go with #b17dba
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Midnight 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #b17dba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b17dba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #b17dba, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #b17dba: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #b17dba in 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b17dba in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #b17dba in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #b17dba in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Lavender Haze, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #b17dba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b17dba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.51:1 | 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 #b17dba as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #b17dba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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