Color

#bda9c7

#bda9c7
hex#bda9c7
rgbrgb(189, 169, 199)
hslhsl(280, 21%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.762 0.048 314.5)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4332

Colors that go with #bda9c7

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b3c7a9

#aea9c7 · #c7a9c2

#c7bda9 · #a9c7bd

Split-complementary

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#c2c7a9 · #a9c7ae

#c7aea9 · #b3c7a9 · #a9c2c7

Contrast

#bda9c7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b689c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #684d75 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bda9c7 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

#bda9c7 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bda9c7
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 #bda9c7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bda9c7-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md