Color
#b28aad
#b28aadrgb(178, 138, 173)hsl(308, 21%, 62%)oklch(0.683 0.068 330.5)Colors that go with #b28aad
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 #b28aad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b28aad in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #b28aad — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #b28aad: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b28aad 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 #b28aad: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b28aad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b28aad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b28aad 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
#b28aad 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 #b28aad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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