Color
#ba85bc
#ba85bcrgb(186, 133, 188)hsl(298, 29%, 63%)oklch(0.687 0.099 325.4)Colors that go with #ba85bc
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ba85bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ba85bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ba85bc in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Meadow, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #ba85bc, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ba85bc: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ba85bc in 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #ba85bc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ba85bc: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ba85bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba85bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.17:1 | 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 #ba85bc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #ba85bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ba85bc-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?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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