Color

#bcaed5

#bcaed5
hex#bcaed5
rgbrgb(188, 174, 213)
hslhsl(262, 32%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.057 301.5)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4577

Colors that go with #bcaed5

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 →

#c7d5ae

#aeb3d5 · #d0aed5

#d5bdae · #aed5bd

Split-complementary

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#d5d0ae · #b3d5ae

#d5aeb3 · #c7d5ae · #aed5d0

Contrast

#bcaed5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8268b1 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #644b91 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bcaed5 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

#bcaed5 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bcaed5
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 #bcaed5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bcaed5-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md