Color

#ca9bad

#ca9bad
hex#ca9bad
rgbrgb(202, 155, 173)
hslhsl(337, 31%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.739 0.061 353.8)
Closest name: Lily (#c19fb3)Relative luminance 0.3902

Colors that go with #ca9bad

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 #ca9bad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9bcab8

#ca9bc5 · #caa09b

#adca9b · #9badca

Split-complementary

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#9bcaa0 · #9bc5ca

#c5ca9b · #9bcab8 · #a09bca

Contrast

#ca9bad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ab5f7c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #82455c as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ca9bad 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

#ca9bad reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ca9bad
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 #ca9bad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ca9bad-c49ca7-62cb70-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md