Color

#c799bd

#c799bd
hex#c799bd
rgbrgb(199, 153, 189)
hslhsl(313, 29%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.073 334.1)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.386

Colors that go with #c799bd

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 #c799bd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99c7a3

#ba99c7 · #c799a6

#bdc799 · #99bdc7

Split-complementary

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#a6c799 · #99c7ba

#c7ba99 · #99c7a3 · #99a6c7

Contrast

#c799bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a45b94 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #7d4571 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c799bd 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

#c799bd reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c799bd
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 #c799bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c799bd-c19fb5-7ecb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md