Color
#b48ad0
#b48ad0rgb(180, 138, 208)hsl(276, 43%, 68%)oklch(0.699 0.11 311.2)Colors that go with #b48ad0
Charcoal, Emerald 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 #b48ad0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b48ad0 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #b48ad0, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #b48ad0 in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #b48ad0 in 6 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #b48ad0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b48ad0 in 3 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #b48ad0's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b48ad0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.49:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #b48ad0 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
#b48ad0 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #b48ad0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b48ad0-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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