Color

#c49cae

#c49cae
hex#c49cae
rgbrgb(196, 156, 174)
hslhsl(333, 25%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.053 349.7)
Closest name: Lily (#c19fb3)Relative luminance 0.3857

Colors that go with #c49cae

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Champagne 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 #c49cae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cc4b2

#c49cc2 · #c49e9c

#aec49c · #9caec4

Split-complementary

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#9cc49e · #9cc2c4

#c2c49c · #9cc4b2 · #9e9cc4

Contrast

#c49cae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a1637f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #79495e as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c49cae 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

#c49cae reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c49cae
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 #c49cae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c49cae-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md