Color

#b29ebd

#b29ebd
hex#b29ebd
rgbrgb(178, 158, 189)
hslhsl(279, 19%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.049 313.7)
Closest name: Dripping Wisteria (#bb99bb)Relative luminance 0.3759

Colors that go with #b29ebd

Charcoal, Burlywood and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #b29ebd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9bd9e

#a39ebd · #bd9eb8

#bdb29e · #9ebdb2

Split-complementary

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#b8bd9e · #9ebda3

#bda39e · #a9bd9e · #9eb8bd

Contrast

#b29ebd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #896a9a as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #664e73 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b29ebd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b29ebd
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 #b29ebd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b29ebd-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md