Color

#c6aec6

#c6aec6
hex#c6aec6
rgbrgb(198, 174, 198)
hslhsl(300, 17%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.779 0.043 326)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4636

Colors that go with #c6aec6

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aec6ae

#baaec6 · #c6aeba

#c6c6ae · #aec6c6

Split-complementary

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#bac6ae · #aec6ba

#c6baae · #aec6ae · #aebac6

Contrast

#c6aec6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926892 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6e4e6e as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
10.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c6aec6 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

#c6aec6 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c6aec6
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 #c6aec6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c6aec6-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md