Lavender Milk
Open in tool →Lilac and pale violet with a blush accent on a lavender-white — the calmest pastel family, made for sleep, journaling and self-care.
Color
#bbaee5
#bbaee5
hex
#bbaee5rgb
rgb(187, 174, 229)hsl
hsl(254, 51%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.781 0.078 295.4)Closest name: Moonraker (#c0b2d7)Relative luminance 0.4649
Colors that go with #bbaee5
Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Deep Sky Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bbaee5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #bbaee5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #bbaee5: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bbaee5: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #bbaee5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #bbaee5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #bbaee5: 6 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #bbaee5 in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bbaee5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbaee5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.04:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bbaee5 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bbaee5 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbaee5
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bbaee5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbaee5-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md