Color
#bb85d1
#bb85d1rgb(187, 133, 209)hsl(283, 45%, 67%)oklch(0.697 0.123 315.8)Colors that go with #bb85d1
Medium Sea Green, Midnight Blue 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 #bb85d1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #bb85d1 in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bb85d1 in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementshippedLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #bb85d1: 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 #bb85d1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #bb85d1 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #bb85d1 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
split-complementSand is a split-complement of #bb85d1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #bb85d1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bb85d1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.39:1 | 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 #bb85d1 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
#bb85d1 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 #bb85d1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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