Color

#c238bd

#c238bd
hex#c238bd
rgbrgb(194, 56, 189)
hslhsl(302, 55%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.594 0.225 329.5)
Closest name: Explosive Purple (#cc11bb)Relative luminance 0.1797

Colors that go with #c238bd

Sea Green, Dark Cyan and Olive Drab 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.

Real palettes that use #c238bd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#38c23d

#8238c2 · #c23878

#bdc238 · #38bdc2

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#78c238 · #38c282

#c28238 · #38c23d · #3878c2

Contrast

#c238bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.57:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #922a8f as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
4.59:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d671d2 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c238bd 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

#c238bd reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c238bd
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 #c238bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c238bd-c19fbc-91cb62-2d1f27-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md