Color

#c487ad

#c487ad
hex#c487ad
rgbrgb(196, 135, 173)
hslhsl(323, 34%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.09 341.8)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3208

Colors that go with #c487ad

Charcoal, Light 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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#87c49f

#bd87c4 · #c4878e

#adc487 · #87adc4

Split-complementary

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#8ec487 · #87c4bd

#c4bd87 · #87c49f · #878ec4

Contrast

#c487ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad588c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #85426b as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c487ad 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

#c487ad reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c487ad
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 #c487ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c487ad-c19fb0-6dcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md