Color
#c797c8
#c797c8rgb(199, 151, 200)hsl(299, 31%, 69%)oklch(0.737 0.087 325.8)Colors that go with #c797c8
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Powder 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #c797c8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #c797c8, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #c797c8: 6 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Graphite and Midnight Luxe put Slate Gray beside #c797c8, as the supporting colour.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #c797c8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #c797c8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #c797c8 in 3 real palettes, including Gumroad's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c797c8
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Contrast
| #c797c8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #c797c8 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #c797c8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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