Color

#c4a5ca

#c4a5ca
hex#c4a5ca
rgbrgb(196, 165, 202)
hslhsl(290, 26%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.062 320.8)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4291

Colors that go with #c4a5ca

Charcoal, Emerald 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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#abcaa5

#b1a5ca · #caa5be

#cac4a5 · #a5cac4

Split-complementary

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#becaa5 · #a5cab1

#cab1a5 · #abcaa5 · #a5beca

Contrast

#c4a5ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9862a3 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #72487a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c4a5ca 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

#c4a5ca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4a5ca
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 #c4a5ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c4a5ca-bf9fc1-a6cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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