Color

#aba9cb

#aba9cb
hex#aba9cb
rgbrgb(171, 169, 203)
hslhsl(244, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.049 287.9)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.4135

Colors that go with #aba9cb

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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#c9cba9

#a9b8cb · #bca9cb

#cbaba9 · #a9cbab

Split-complementary

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#cbbca9 · #b8cba9

#cba9b8 · #c9cba9 · #a9cbbc

Contrast

#aba9cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7370a9 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #565289 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba9cb 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

#aba9cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba9cb
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 #aba9cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba9cb-a39cc4-dfa24e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md