Color

#c5adcc

#c5adcc
hex#c5adcc
rgbrgb(197, 173, 204)
hslhsl(286, 23%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.778 0.051 318.5)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4612

Colors that go with #c5adcc

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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 →

#b5ccad

#b6adcc · #ccadc4

#ccc5ad · #adccc5

Split-complementary

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#c4ccad · #adccb6

#ccb6ad · #b5ccad · #adc4cc

Contrast

#c5adcc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #91659f as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4b77 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
10.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5adcc 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

#c5adcc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5adcc
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 #c5adcc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5adcc-bd9fc1-adcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md