Color

#c38da1

#c38da1
hex#c38da1
rgbrgb(195, 141, 161)
hslhsl(338, 31%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.07 355.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3323

Colors that go with #c38da1

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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 #c38da1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8dc3af

#c38dbc · #c3958d

#a1c38d · #8da1c3

Split-complementary

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#8dc395 · #8dbcc3

#bcc38d · #8dc3af · #958dc3

Contrast

#c38da1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ab5f7a as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #82455b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c38da1 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

#c38da1 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c38da1
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 #c38da1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c38da1-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md