Color

#c596a3

#c596a3
hex#c596a3
rgbrgb(197, 150, 163)
hslhsl(343, 29%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.059 0.4)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3633

Colors that go with #c596a3

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 #c596a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96c5b8

#c596bb · #c5a096

#a3c596 · #96a3c5

Split-complementary

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#96c5a0 · #96bbc5

#bbc596 · #96c5b8 · #a096c5

Contrast

#c596a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a86175 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #804757 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c596a3 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

#c596a3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c596a3
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 #c596a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c596a3-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md