Color

#c799ba

#c799ba
hex#c799ba
rgbrgb(199, 153, 186)
hslhsl(317, 29%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.07 336.8)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3847

Colors that go with #c799ba

Charcoal, Dark Sea 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.

Real palettes that use #c799ba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99c7a6

#bd99c7 · #c799a3

#bac799 · #99bac7

Split-complementary

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#a3c799 · #99c7bd

#c7bd99 · #99c7a6 · #99a3c7

Contrast

#c799ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a65e92 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #7d456d as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c799ba 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

#c799ba reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c799ba
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 #c799ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c799ba-c19fb3-77cb62-2d1f23-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md