Color

#c397aa

#c397aa
hex#c397aa
rgbrgb(195, 151, 170)
hslhsl(334, 27%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.058 350.9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3664

Colors that go with #c397aa

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 #c397aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c3b0

#c397c0 · #c39a97

#aac397 · #97aac3

Split-complementary

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#97c39a · #97c0c3

#c0c397 · #97c3b0 · #9a97c3

Contrast

#c397aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a4607e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7b475d as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c397aa 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

#c397aa reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c397aa
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 #c397aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c397aa-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md