Color
#ba85fe
#ba85fergb(186, 133, 254)hsl(266, 98%, 76%)oklch(0.718 0.176 302.4)Colors that go with #ba85fe
Emerald Green, Yellow Green and Amber 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.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #ba85fe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Yellow Green #9acd32
complementaryYellow Green sits directly opposite #ba85fe 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 #ba85fe in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ba85fe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
triadicshippedLight Sea Green completes a triad with #ba85fe — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementGoldenrod is a split-complement of #ba85fe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #ba85fe in two real palettes: Obsidian's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ba85fe in two real palettes: Loom's brand system and Roblox's brand system, as the lead colour.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba85fe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.87:1 | 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 #ba85fe 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
#ba85fe reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #ba85fe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ba85fe-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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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