Color

#bda9d0

#bda9d0
hex#bda9d0
rgbrgb(189, 169, 208)
hslhsl(271, 29%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.765 0.059 308.2)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4375

Colors that go with #bda9d0

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

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#bcd0a9

#aaa9d0 · #d0a9cf

#d0bda9 · #a9d0bd

Split-complementary

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#cfd0a9 · #a9d0aa

#d0aaa9 · #bcd0a9 · #a9cfd0

Contrast

#bda9d0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8864aa as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #6a4a87 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bda9d0 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

#bda9d0 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bda9d0
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 #bda9d0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bda9d0-b59cc4-c7cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md