Color

#b356e1

#b356e1
hex#b356e1
rgbrgb(179, 86, 225)
hslhsl(280, 70%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.626 0.212 312.7)
Closest name: mediumorchid (#ba55d3)Relative luminance 0.2168

Colors that go with #b356e1

Olive Drab, Sea Green and Charcoal 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 →

#84e156

#6d56e1 · #e156ca

#e1b356 · #56e1b3

Split-complementary

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#cae156 · #56e16d

#e16d56 · #84e156 · #56cae1

Contrast

#b356e1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.94:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ab45de as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #8721ba as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
5.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c279e7 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b356e1 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

#b356e1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b356e1
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 #b356e1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b356e1-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md