Color

#c59bae

#c59bae
hex#c59bae
rgbrgb(197, 155, 174)
hslhsl(333, 27%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.056 349.7)
Closest name: Lily (#c19fb3)Relative luminance 0.3837

Colors that go with #c59bae

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 #c59bae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bc5b2

#c59bc3 · #c59d9b

#aec59b · #9baec5

Split-complementary

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#9bc59d · #9bc3c5

#c3c59b · #9bc5b2 · #9d9bc5

Contrast

#c59bae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a4607f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7b475e as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.67:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c59bae 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

#c59bae reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c59bae
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 #c59bae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c59bae-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md