Color
#b47dbf
#b47dbfrgb(180, 125, 191)hsl(290, 34%, 62%)oklch(0.668 0.113 320.7)Colors that go with #b47dbf
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Midnight 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #b47dbf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #b47dbf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #b47dbf in 4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Lavender Haze, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b47dbf in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #b47dbf's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b47dbf in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #b47dbf in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue is paired with #b47dbf in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Lavender Haze, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #b47dbf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b47dbf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.17:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.63:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b47dbf as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #b47dbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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