Color

#c9adcc

#c9adcc
hex#c9adcc
rgbrgb(201, 173, 204)
hslhsl(294, 23%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.782 0.053 323)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4666

Colors that go with #c9adcc

Charcoal, Emerald 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 #c9adcc

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b1ccad

#baadcc · #ccadc0

#ccc9ad · #adccc9

Split-complementary

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#c0ccad · #adccba

#ccbaad · #b1ccad · #adc0cc

Contrast

#c9adcc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.03:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #97629d as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #704974 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
10.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9adcc 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

#c9adcc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9adcc
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 #c9adcc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9adcc-c19fc0-9fcb62-2d1f29-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md