Color

#c49cb6

#c49cb6
hex#c49cb6
rgbrgb(196, 156, 182)
hslhsl(321, 25%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.059 339.6)
Closest name: Lily (#c19fb3)Relative luminance 0.3889

Colors that go with #c49cb6

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and 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.

Real palettes that use #c49cb6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#9cc4aa

#be9cc4 · #c49ca2

#b6c49c · #9cb6c4

Split-complementary

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#a2c49c · #9cc4be

#c4be9c · #9cc4aa · #9ca2c4

Contrast

#c49cb6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6089 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #794968 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c49cb6 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

#c49cb6 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c49cb6
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 #c49cb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c49cb6-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md