Color
#bec5e4
#bec5e4rgb(190, 197, 228)hsl(229, 41%, 82%)oklch(0.828 0.044 275.4)Colors that go with #bec5e4
Charcoal, Sand 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 #bec5e4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #bec5e4 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 #bec5e4: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #bec5e4, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #bec5e4: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #bec5e4, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bec5e4 in 25 real palettes, including Still Water and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #bec5e4: 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Oatly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bec5e4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bec5e4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.71:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.3:1 | 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 #bec5e4 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
#bec5e4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #bec5e4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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