Color

#c3aaca

#c3aaca
hex#c3aaca
rgbrgb(195, 170, 202)
hslhsl(287, 23%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.77 0.053 318.8)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4462

Colors that go with #c3aaca

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Copper 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b1caaa

#b3aaca · #caaac1

#cac3aa · #aacac3

Split-complementary

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#c1caaa · #aacab3

#cab3aa · #b1caaa · #aac1ca

Contrast

#c3aaca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92659f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6e4b77 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c3aaca 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

#c3aaca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3aaca
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 #c3aaca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c3aaca-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md