Color

#baa5ca

#baa5ca
hex#baa5ca
rgbrgb(186, 165, 202)
hslhsl(274, 26%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.057 310.5)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.4161

Colors that go with #baa5ca

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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.

Real palettes that use #baa5ca

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5caa5

#a8a5ca · #caa5c8

#cabaa5 · #a5caba

Split-complementary

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#c8caa5 · #a5caa8

#caa8a5 · #b5caa5 · #a5c8ca

Contrast

#baa5ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b68a6 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #6a4b81 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #baa5ca 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

#baa5ca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #baa5ca
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 #baa5ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/baa5ca-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md