Color

#bcaed0

#bcaed0
hex#bcaed0
rgbrgb(188, 174, 208)
hslhsl(265, 27%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.05 303.9)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4552

Colors that go with #bcaed0

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 →

#c2d0ae

#aeb1d0 · #ceaed0

#d0bcae · #aed0bc

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#d0ceae · #b1d0ae

#d0aeb1 · #c2d0ae · #aed0ce

Contrast

#bcaed0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #846aa9 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #644c85 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.28:1)
Aaon black
10.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcaed0 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

#bcaed0 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcaed0
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 #bcaed0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcaed0-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md