Color

#aca9cb

#aca9cb
hex#aca9cb
rgbrgb(172, 169, 203)
hslhsl(245, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.049 289.2)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.4146

Colors that go with #aca9cb

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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#c8cba9

#a9b7cb · #bda9cb

#cbaca9 · #a9cbac

Split-complementary

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#cbbda9 · #b7cba9

#cba9b7 · #c8cba9 · #a9cbbd

Contrast

#aca9cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7470a9 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #575289 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aca9cb 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

#aca9cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aca9cb
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 #aca9cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aca9cb-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md