Color

#b299d6

#b299d6
hex#b299d6
rgbrgb(178, 153, 214)
hslhsl(265, 43%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.091 303)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.371

Colors that go with #b299d6

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 →

#bdd699

#999ed6 · #d199d6

#d6b299 · #99d6b2

Split-complementary

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#d6d199 · #9ed699

#d6999e · #bdd699 · #99d6d1

Contrast

#b299d6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8962c0 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #6b41a4 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
8.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b299d6 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

#b299d6 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b299d6
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 #b299d6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b299d6-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md