Color

#b38eb4

#b38eb4
hex#b38eb4
rgbrgb(179, 142, 180)
hslhsl(298, 20%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.694 0.069 325.4)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3222

Colors that go with #b38eb4

Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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 #b38eb4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8fb48e

#9f8eb4 · #b48ea2

#b4b28e · #8eb4b2

Split-complementary

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#a2b48e · #8eb49f

#b49f8e · #8fb48e · #8ea2b4

Contrast

#b38eb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946496 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #704b71 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b38eb4 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 #b38eb4
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 #b38eb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b38eb4-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md