Color
#ba87a7
#ba87a7rgb(186, 135, 167)hsl(322, 27%, 63%)oklch(0.683 0.076 341.2)Colors that go with #ba87a7
Charcoal, Copper and Midnight Blue 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 body-text near-black for #ba87a7: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ba87a7, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ba87a7: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ba87a7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #ba87a7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ba87a7: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ba87a7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba87a7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.11:1 | 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 #ba87a7 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
#ba87a7 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #ba87a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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