Color
#c478ba
#c478bargb(196, 120, 186)hsl(308, 39%, 62%)oklch(0.676 0.127 331.8)Colors that go with #c478ba
Medium Sea Green, Taupe and Cadet 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 #c478ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c478ba in 5 real palettes, including Meadow and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementCadet Blue is a split-complement of #c478ba: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #c478ba: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c478ba: two real palettes: Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #c478ba in two real palettes: Meadow and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour.
Medium Purple #9370db
analogousshippedMedium Purple is #c478ba's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #c478ba in two real palettes: Lavender Haze and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c478ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c478ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.11:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.74:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c478ba 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
#c478ba reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #c478ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c478ba-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?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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