Lavender Milk
Open in tool →Lilac and pale violet with a blush accent on a lavender-white — the calmest pastel family, made for sleep, journaling and self-care.
Color
#282943rgb(40, 41, 67)hsl(238, 25%, 21%)oklch(0.293 0.047 281.4)Dark Olive Green, Sienna and 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.
Dark Olive Green sits directly opposite #282943 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna is a split-complement of #282943: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Blue is #282943's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue is #282943's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal completes a triad with #282943 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #282943 in 8 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour.
17 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #282943, as the accent.
White Smoke is the surface for #282943: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
| #282943 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.11:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #282943 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#282943 reads as cool, muted, dark. 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 #282943 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/282943-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md