Color

#b5aed0

#b5aed0
hex#b5aed0
rgbrgb(181, 174, 208)
hslhsl(252, 27%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.049 294.7)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4465

Colors that go with #b5aed0

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 →

#cad0ae

#aeb8d0 · #c6aed0

#d0b5ae · #aed0b5

Split-complementary

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#d0c6ae · #b8d0ae

#d0aeb8 · #cad0ae · #aed0c6

Contrast

#b5aed0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a6dab as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5c508b as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b5aed0 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

#b5aed0 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5aed0
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 #b5aed0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b5aed0-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md