Color

#b997ce

#b997ce
hex#b997ce
rgbrgb(185, 151, 206)
hslhsl(277, 36%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.086 312.2)
Closest name: Turnip Crown (#bb9ecd)Relative luminance 0.369

Colors that go with #b997ce

Charcoal, Denim and Emerald Green 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#acce97

#9d97ce · #ce97c8

#ceb997 · #97ceb9

Split-complementary

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#c8ce97 · #97ce9d

#ce9d97 · #acce97 · #97c8ce

Contrast

#b997ce as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #945fb4 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #71438e as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b997ce 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

#b997ce reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b997ce
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 #b997ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b997ce-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md