Lavender Haze
Open in tool →Violet and pink on lilac-white: Gen-Z friendly, while the deep plum text keeps it legible.
Color
#c3b8fa
#c3b8fa
hex
#c3b8fargb
rgb(195, 184, 250)hsl
hsl(250, 87%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.093 291.8)Closest name: Purple Illusion (#b8b8f8)Relative luminance 0.5279
Colors that go with #c3b8fa
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Dark Khaki 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 #c3b8fa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #c3b8fa's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #c3b8fa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #c3b8fa, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #c3b8fa in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #c3b8fa, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c3b8fa in 17 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c3b8fa in 3 real palettes, including Gumroad's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c3b8fa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c3b8fa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.82:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.56:1 | 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 #c3b8fa as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c3b8fa reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3b8fa
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 #c3b8fa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c3b8fa-a79cc4-dfb14e-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