Color
#b686a8
#b686a8rgb(182, 134, 168)hsl(318, 25%, 62%)oklch(0.677 0.074 337.4)Colors that go with #b686a8
Charcoal, Copper 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 body-text near-black for #b686a8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b686a8: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #b686a8, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #b686a8: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryCadet Blue sits directly opposite #b686a8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #b686a8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b686a8: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b686a8
Tints & shades
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Contrast
| #b686a8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.96:1 | 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 #b686a8 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#b686a8 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #b686a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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