Color
#c997ab
#c997abrgb(201, 151, 171)hsl(336, 32%, 69%)oklch(0.729 0.065 353)Colors that go with #c997ab
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Champagne 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 body-text near-black for #c997ab: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #c997ab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #c997ab, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #c997ab: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #c997ab: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #c997ab: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #c997ab in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #c997ab, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c997ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.5:1 | 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 #c997ab 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
#c997ab reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #c997ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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