Color

#bdb3cb

#bdb3cb
hex#bdb3cb
rgbrgb(189, 179, 203)
hslhsl(265, 19%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.783 0.035 304.4)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4737

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c1cbb3

#b3b5cb · #c9b3cb

#cbbdb3 · #b3cbbd

Split-complementary

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#cbc9b3 · #b5cbb3

#cbb3b5 · #c1cbb3 · #b3cbc9

Contrast

#bdb3cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #816d9c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #605176 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.06:1)
Aaon black
10.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdb3cb as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#bdb3cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb3cb
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bdb3cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb3cb-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md