Color

#c9bbc8

#c9bbc8
hex#c9bbc8
rgbrgb(201, 187, 200)
hslhsl(304, 11%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.808 0.024 328)
Closest name: Last of the Lilacs (#cbbbcd)Relative luminance 0.5213

Colors that go with #c9bbc8

Charcoal, Copper and Deep Sky 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bbc9bc

#c3bbc9 · #c9bbc1

#c8c9bb · #bbc8c9

Split-complementary

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#c1c9bb · #bbc9c3

#c9c3bb · #bbc9bc · #bbc1c9

Contrast

#c9bbc8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886d86 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #665265 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
11.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9bbc8 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

#c9bbc8 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9bbc8
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 #c9bbc8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9bbc8-c19fba-8ecb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md