Color

#c8a9d1

#c8a9d1
hex#c8a9d1
rgbrgb(200, 169, 209)
hslhsl(287, 30%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.775 0.065 318.6)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4526

Colors that go with #c8a9d1

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b1d1a9

#b4a9d1 · #d1a9c5

#d1c8a9 · #a9d1c8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#c5d1a9 · #a9d1b4

#d1b4a9 · #b1d1a9 · #a9c5d1

Contrast

#c8a9d1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9960a9 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #744681 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
10.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8a9d1 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

#c8a9d1 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8a9d1
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 #c8a9d1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a9d1-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md