Named color
Lavender
#b56edcrgb(181, 110, 220)hsl(279, 61%, 65%)oklch(0.659 0.171 312.4)Lavender on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Lavender
Medium Sea Green, Amber and Medium Slate 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite Lavender on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Lavender in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to Lavender in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of Lavender: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedTwo real palettes: Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside Lavender, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the text near-black for Lavender: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with Lavender in two real palettes: Loom's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicCadet Blue completes a triad with Lavender — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use Lavender
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Lavender as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.37:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.23:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Lavender 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
Lavender reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #b56edc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b56edc-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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