Color
#ba4a8a
#ba4a8argb(186, 74, 138)hsl(326, 45%, 51%)oklch(0.577 0.16 347.9)Colors that go with #ba4a8a
Dark Cyan, Denim and Sea 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.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryshippedDark Cyan sits directly opposite #ba4a8a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ba4a8a: 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #ba4a8a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ba4a8a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ba4a8a in 3 real palettes, including The Ordinary's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ba4a8a in two real palettes: Klarna US's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #ba4a8a in two real palettes: DuckDuckGo's brand system and Sourcegraph's brand system, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shippedTwo real palettes: Sunset Boulevard and Rippling's brand system put Orange beside #ba4a8a, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ba4a8a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba4a8a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.74:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.43:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ba4a8a 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
#ba4a8a reads as warm. 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 #ba4a8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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