Color

#b4a8cd

#b4a8cd
hex#b4a8cd
rgbrgb(180, 168, 205)
hslhsl(259, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.054 299.9)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.4212

Colors that go with #b4a8cd

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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#c1cda8

#a8aecd · #c6a8cd

#cdb3a8 · #a8cdb3

Split-complementary

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#cdc6a8 · #aecda8

#cda8ae · #c1cda8 · #a8cdc6

Contrast

#b4a8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e6aa9 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #604e88 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
9.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b4a8cd 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

#b4a8cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b4a8cd
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 #b4a8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b4a8cd-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md