Color

#b5add2

#b5add2
hex#b5add2
rgbrgb(181, 173, 210)
hslhsl(253, 29%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.053 295)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4436

Colors that go with #b5add2

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

Open in tool →

#cad2ad

#adb7d2 · #c7add2

#d2b5ad · #add2b5

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#d2c7ad · #b7d2ad

#d2adb7 · #cad2ad · #add2c7

Contrast

#b5add2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #796bae as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5c4e8d as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5add2 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

#b5add2 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5add2
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 #b5add2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5add2-a99cc4-dfb84e-281f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md