Color
#c38cc5
#c38cc5rgb(195, 140, 197)hsl(298, 33%, 66%)oklch(0.713 0.102 325.4)Colors that go with #c38cc5
Medium Sea Green, Charcoal and Midnight 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #c38cc5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #c38cc5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #c38cc5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #c38cc5: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c38cc5 in 11 real palettes, including Meadow and Blossom, as the text colour against it.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementshippedLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #c38cc5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c38cc5 in 3 real palettes, including Gumroad's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c38cc5 in 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and JBL's brand system, as the lead colour.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c38cc5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.88:1 | 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 #c38cc5 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #c38cc5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c38cc5-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-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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