Color

#b8adcd

#b8adcd
hex#b8adcd
rgbrgb(184, 173, 205)
hslhsl(261, 24%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.047 301)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4449

Colors that go with #b8adcd

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 →

#c1cdad

#adb2cd · #c8adcd

#cdb8ad · #adcdb8

Split-complementary

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#cdc8ad · #b2cdad

#cdadb2 · #c1cdad · #adcdc8

Contrast

#b8adcd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f6aa4 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #614f82 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8adcd 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

#b8adcd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8adcd
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 #b8adcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8adcd-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md