Color

#c299a8

#c299a8
hex#c299a8
rgbrgb(194, 153, 168)
hslhsl(338, 25%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.053 354.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3708

Colors that go with #c299a8

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Burlywood 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 #c299a8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99c2b3

#c299bc · #c29e99

#a8c299 · #99a8c2

Split-complementary

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#99c29e · #99bcc2

#bcc299 · #99c2b3 · #9e99c2

Contrast

#c299a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a1637a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #79495a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c299a8 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

#c299a8 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c299a8
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 #c299a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c299a8-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md