Color
#b285aa
#b285aargb(178, 133, 170)hsl(311, 23%, 61%)oklch(0.672 0.075 332.7)Colors that go with #b285aa
Charcoal, Copper and Emerald Green 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 body-text near-black for #b285aa: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b285aa: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b285aa in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #b285aa, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #b285aa: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b285aa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #b285aa, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b285aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b285aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.83:1 | 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 #b285aa 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
#b285aa reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #b285aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b285aa-c19fb7-82cb62-2d1f25-efe9f1?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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