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
#cdc5ec
#cdc5ec
hex
#cdc5ecrgb
rgb(205, 197, 236)hsl
hsl(252, 51%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.842 0.054 294.6)Closest name: Foggy Love (#d5c7e8)Relative luminance 0.5897
Colors that go with #cdc5ec
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 #cdc5ec: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #cdc5ec 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
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #cdc5ec in 6 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #cdc5ec in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #cdc5ec in 7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #cdc5ec in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #cdc5ec in 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #cdc5ec in 10 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Midnight Luxe, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cdc5ec
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdc5ec as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.79:1 | 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 #cdc5ec 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
#cdc5ec reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdc5ec
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 #cdc5ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cdc5ec-a99cc4-dfb64e-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