Color

#c997ac

#c997ac
hex#c997ac
rgbrgb(201, 151, 172)
hslhsl(335, 32%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.066 351.9)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3753

Colors that go with #c997ac

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.

Real palettes that use #c997ac

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c9b4

#c997c5 · #c99b97

#acc997 · #97acc9

Split-complementary

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#97c99b · #97c5c9

#c5c997 · #97c9b4 · #9b97c9

Contrast

#c997ac as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac5d7e as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #83445e as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c997ac 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

#c997ac reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c997ac
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 #c997ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c997ac-c49ca8-62cb6d-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md