Color

#bbabd4

#bbabd4
hex#bbabd4
rgbrgb(187, 171, 212)
hslhsl(263, 32%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.06 302.8)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4444

Colors that go with #bbabd4

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#c4d4ab

#abb0d4 · #cfabd4

#d4baab · #abd4ba

Split-complementary

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#d4cfab · #b0d4ab

#d4abb0 · #c4d4ab · #abd4cf

Contrast

#bbabd4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8468b1 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #654b91 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bbabd4 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

#bbabd4 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbabd4
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 #bbabd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bbabd4-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md