Color

#bdbad8

#bdbad8
hex#bdbad8
rgbrgb(189, 186, 216)
hslhsl(246, 28%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.801 0.042 290)
Closest name: Fog Syringa (#c4bad2)Relative luminance 0.5089

Colors that go with #bdbad8

Charcoal, Dark Khaki 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 →

#d5d8ba

#bac6d8 · #ccbad8

#d8bdba · #bad8bd

Split-complementary

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#d8ccba · #c6d8ba

#d8bac6 · #d5d8ba · #bad8cc

Contrast

#bdbad8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #766fae as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #575190 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.72:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
11.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bdbad8 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

#bdbad8 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdbad8
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 #bdbad8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdbad8-a59cc4-dfa74e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md