Color
#c99bd4
#c99bd4rgb(201, 155, 212)hsl(288, 40%, 72%)oklch(0.751 0.095 319.7)Colors that go with #c99bd4
Charcoal, Crimson and Midnight 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #c99bd4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #c99bd4 in 4 real palettes, including JBL's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #c99bd4, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #c99bd4: 6 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite put Slate Gray beside #c99bd4, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #c99bd4 in 15 real palettes, including Blossom and Meadow, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #c99bd4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #c99bd4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #c99bd4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c99bd4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.12:1 | 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 #c99bd4 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
#c99bd4 reads as cool, light, clean. 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 #c99bd4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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