Color

#b299cc

#b299cc
hex#b299cc
rgbrgb(178, 153, 204)
hslhsl(269, 33%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.077 306.8)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3661

Colors that go with #b299cc

Charcoal, Denim 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b3cc99

#999acc · #cb99cc

#ccb299 · #99ccb2

Split-complementary

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#cccb99 · #9acc99

#cc999a · #b3cc99 · #99cccb

Contrast

#b299cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b66b2 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6a488e as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b299cc 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

#b299cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b299cc
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 #b299cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b299cc-b49cc4-cbcb62-2c1f2d-e9e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md