Color
#ba85db
#ba85dbrgb(186, 133, 219)hsl(277, 54%, 69%)oklch(0.701 0.134 311.6)Colors that go with #ba85db
Medium Sea Green, Amber and Taupe 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ba85db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ba85db in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ba85db in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #ba85db: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ba85db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ba85db in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #ba85db in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ba85db, as the text colour against it.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba85db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.47:1 | 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 #ba85db 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
#ba85db reads as cool, modern. 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 #ba85db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ba85db-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?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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