Color

#b29bd4

#b29bd4
hex#b29bd4
rgbrgb(178, 155, 212)
hslhsl(264, 40%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.085 302.8)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.3766

Colors that go with #b29bd4

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 →

#bdd49b

#9ba1d4 · #ce9bd4

#d4b29b · #9bd4b2

Split-complementary

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#d4ce9b · #a1d49b

#d49ba1 · #bdd49b · #9bd4ce

Contrast

#b29bd4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8965bd as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6a45a1 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b29bd4 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

#b29bd4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b29bd4
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 #b29bd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b29bd4-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md