Color

#b496bb

#b496bb
hex#b496bb
rgbrgb(180, 150, 187)
hslhsl(289, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.063 319.9)
Closest name: Dripping Wisteria (#bb99bb)Relative luminance 0.351

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9dbb96

#a296bb · #bb96af

#bbb496 · #96bbb4

Split-complementary

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#afbb96 · #96bba2

#bba296 · #9dbb96 · #96afbb

Contrast

#b496bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #90659a as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #6e4d75 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b496bb 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 #b496bb
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #b496bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b496bb-be9fc1-a8cb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md