Lavender Milk
Open in tool →Lilac and pale violet with a blush accent on a lavender-white — the calmest pastel family, made for sleep, journaling and self-care.
Color
#bdb6dd
#bdb6dd
hex
#bdb6ddrgb
rgb(189, 182, 221)hsl
hsl(251, 36%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.795 0.055 293.3)Closest name: Moonraker (#c0b2d7)Relative luminance 0.495
Colors that go with #bdb6dd
Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bdb6dd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #bdb6dd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #bdb6dd: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bdb6dd: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #bdb6dd, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #bdb6dd: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #bdb6dd: 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Stone, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #bdb6dd, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bdb6dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdb6dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #bdb6dd 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
#bdb6dd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb6dd
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #bdb6dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bdb6dd-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md