Color

#be9bd9

#be9bd9
hex#be9bd9
rgbrgb(190, 155, 217)
hslhsl(274, 45%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.095 309.9)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.394

Colors that go with #be9bd9

Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b6d99b

#9f9bd9 · #d99bd5

#d9be9b · #9bd9be

Split-complementary

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#d5d99b · #9bd99f

#d99f9b · #b6d99b · #9bd5d9

Contrast

#be9bd9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #965cc1 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #743c9f as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #be9bd9 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

#be9bd9 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #be9bd9
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #be9bd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/be9bd9-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md