Color

#d8bad9

#d8bad9
hex#d8bad9
rgbrgb(216, 186, 217)
hslhsl(298, 29%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.824 0.054 325.1)
Closest name: thistle (#d8bfd8)Relative luminance 0.5473

Colors that go with #d8bad9

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bbd9ba

#c8bad9 · #d9baca

#d9d8ba · #bad9d8

Split-complementary

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#cad9ba · #bad9c8

#d9c8ba · #bbd9ba · #bacad9

Contrast

#d8bad9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a25ba4 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #7b457d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
11.95:1passpasspassPasses 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 #d8bad9 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

#d8bad9 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d8bad9
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 #d8bad9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d8bad9-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md