Color
#ba87b9
#ba87b9rgb(186, 135, 185)hsl(301, 27%, 63%)oklch(0.69 0.092 327.2)Colors that go with #ba87b9
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 #ba87b9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ba87b9 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 #ba87b9 in 5 real palettes, including Meadow and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ba87b9, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #ba87b9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ba87b9: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ba87b9: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ba87b9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ba87b9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.25:1 | 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 #ba87b9 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#ba87b9 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 #ba87b9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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