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
#cdc5ed
#cdc5ed
hex
#cdc5edrgb
rgb(205, 197, 237)hsl
hsl(252, 53%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.843 0.056 294.3)Closest name: Foggy Love (#d5c7e8)Relative luminance 0.5903
Colors that go with #cdc5ed
Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Crimson 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 #cdc5ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #cdc5ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cdc5ed in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #cdc5ed: 7 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cdc5ed in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #cdc5ed, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #cdc5ed, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #cdc5ed: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cdc5ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdc5ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.81:1 | 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 #cdc5ed 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
#cdc5ed reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdc5ed
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 #cdc5ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cdc5ed-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