Color

#b6b1cd

#b6b1cd
hex#b6b1cd
rgbrgb(182, 177, 205)
hslhsl(251, 22%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.04 293.6)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.458

Colors that go with #b6b1cd

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 →

#c8cdb1

#b1bacd · #c4b1cd

#cdb6b1 · #b1cdb6

Split-complementary

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#cdc4b1 · #bacdb1

#cdb1ba · #c8cdb1 · #b1cdc4

Contrast

#b6b1cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #766da2 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5280 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
10.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b6b1cd 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

#b6b1cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b6b1cd
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 #b6b1cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b6b1cd-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md