Color

#bdabd4

#bdabd4
hex#bdabd4
rgbrgb(189, 171, 212)
hslhsl(266, 32%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.77 0.061 304.9)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.447

Colors that go with #bdabd4

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 →

#c2d4ab

#abaed4 · #d1abd4

#d4bdab · #abd4bd

Split-complementary

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#d4d1ab · #aed4ab

#d4abae · #c2d4ab · #abd4d1

Contrast

#bdabd4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8768b1 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #67498d as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdabd4 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

#bdabd4 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdabd4
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 #bdabd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdabd4-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md