Lilac hex code
Lilac
#c8a2c8rgb(200, 162, 200)hsl(300, 26%, 71%)oklch(0.759 0.068 326.2)Lilac is a light, muted magenta — #c8a2c8, rgb(200, 162, 200), hue 300° at 26% saturation. The colours that go with lilac are Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper — each with the reason below, and the real palettes that pair them. It fails AA as text on white (2.22:1) but passes on black at 9.46:1 — a dark-mode colour, or a fill with dark type on it.
Colors that go with Lilac
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for Lilac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite Lilac on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Lilac: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Lilac in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Lilac: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside Lilac, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with Lilac: 7 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite put Slate Gray beside Lilac, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use Lilac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Lilac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.46:1 | 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 Lilac 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
Lilac reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #c8a2c8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c8a2c8-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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