Color

#c49ca3

#c49ca3
hex#c49ca3
rgbrgb(196, 156, 163)
hslhsl(350, 25%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.048 6.6)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3816

Colors that go with #c49ca3

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 #c49ca3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cc4bd

#c49cb7 · #c4a99c

#a3c49c · #9ca3c4

Split-complementary

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#9cc4a9 · #9cb7c4

#b7c49c · #9cc4bd · #a99cc4

Contrast

#c49ca3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a1636d as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #7c4b53 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7:1)
Aaon black
8.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c49ca3 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

#c49ca3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c49ca3
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 #c49ca3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c49ca3-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md