Color

#b296d9

#b296d9
hex#b296d9
rgbrgb(178, 150, 217)
hslhsl(265, 47%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.1 303.2)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3629

Colors that go with #b296d9

Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bdd996

#969cd9 · #d496d9

#d9b296 · #96d9b2

Split-complementary

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#d9d496 · #9cd996

#d9969c · #bdd996 · #96d9d4

Contrast

#b296d9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #895ec5 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #6c3eac as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b296d9 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

#b296d9 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b296d9
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b296d9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b296d9-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md