Color

#c8bad8

#c8bad8
hex#c8bad8
rgbrgb(200, 186, 216)
hslhsl(268, 28%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.81 0.044 306.4)
Closest name: New Love (#c6bbdb)Relative luminance 0.5236

Colors that go with #c8bad8

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Deep Sky 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

Open in tool →

#cad8ba

#babbd8 · #d7bad8

#d8c8ba · #bad8c8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#d8d7ba · #bbd8ba

#d8babb · #cad8ba · #bad8d7

Contrast

#c8bad8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8869ab as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #674b86 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.21:1)
Aaon black
11.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c8bad8 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

#c8bad8 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8bad8
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 #c8bad8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8bad8-b39cc4-dfdc4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md