Color

#aba8cd

#aba8cd
hex#aba8cd
rgbrgb(171, 168, 205)
hslhsl(245, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.747 0.053 288.8)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.4107

Colors that go with #aba8cd

Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Copper 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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#cacda8

#a8b7cd · #bda8cd

#cdaba8 · #a8cdab

Split-complementary

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#cdbda8 · #b7cda8

#cda8b7 · #cacda8 · #a8cdbd

Contrast

#aba8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #726dab as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #55508b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba8cd 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

#aba8cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba8cd
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 #aba8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba8cd-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md