Color

#bb55dd

#bb55dd
hex#bb55dd
rgbrgb(187, 85, 221)
hslhsl(285, 67%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.633 0.212 316.7)
Closest name: mediumorchid (#ba55d3)Relative luminance 0.2228

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#77dd55

#7755dd · #dd55bb

#ddbb55 · #55ddbb

Split-complementary

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#bbdd55 · #55dd77

#dd7755 · #77dd55 · #55bbdd

Contrast

#bb55dd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.85:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b33fd9 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #8c23af as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c977e4 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bb55dd 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

#bb55dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bb55dd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bb55dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bb55dd-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md