Color

#c997b4

#c997b4
hex#c997b4
rgbrgb(201, 151, 180)
hslhsl(325, 32%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.732 0.071 343.3)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3785

Colors that go with #c997b4

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 #c997b4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c9ac

#c597c9 · #c9979b

#b4c997 · #97b4c9

Split-complementary

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#9bc997 · #97c9c5

#c9c597 · #97c9ac · #979bc9

Contrast

#c997b4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #aa5a89 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #834469 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c997b4 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

#c997b4 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c997b4
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 #c997b4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c997b4-c19faf-69cb62-2d1f21-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md