Color
#b285ab
#b285abrgb(178, 133, 171)hsl(309, 23%, 61%)oklch(0.673 0.076 331.8)Colors that go with #b285ab
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 #b285ab: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b285ab: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b285ab 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 #b285ab, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #b285ab: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b285ab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b285ab: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b285ab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b285ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.07:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.84:1 | 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 #b285ab 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
#b285ab 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 #b285ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b285ab-c19fb8-85cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?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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