Color

#c398a5

#c398a5
hex#c398a5
rgbrgb(195, 152, 165)
hslhsl(342, 26%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.054 358.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3678

Colors that go with #c398a5

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 #c398a5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98c3b6

#c398ba · #c3a198

#a5c398 · #98a5c3

Split-complementary

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#98c3a1 · #98bac3

#bac398 · #98c3b6 · #a198c3

Contrast

#c398a5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36275 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #7d4a59 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c398a5 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

#c398a5 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c398a5
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 #c398a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c398a5-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md