Color

#b8aed0

#b8aed0
hex#b8aed0
rgbrgb(184, 174, 208)
hslhsl(258, 27%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.77 0.049 298.7)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4502

Colors that go with #b8aed0

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 →

#c6d0ae

#aeb5d0 · #caaed0

#d0b8ae · #aed0b8

Split-complementary

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#d0caae · #b5d0ae

#d0aeb5 · #c6d0ae · #aed0ca

Contrast

#b8aed0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6aa9 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #604e88 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
10:1passpasspassPasses 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 #b8aed0 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

#b8aed0 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b8aed0
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 #b8aed0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b8aed0-ad9cc4-dfc44e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md