Color
#ca9ee5
#ca9ee5rgb(202, 158, 229)hsl(277, 58%, 76%)oklch(0.764 0.11 312.1)Colors that go with #ca9ee5
Charcoal, Emerald Green 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 #ca9ee5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
complementaryshippedEmerald Green sits directly opposite #ca9ee5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #ca9ee5 in 7 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #ca9ee5 in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Macaron, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #ca9ee5 in 4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ca9ee5 in 7 real palettes, including Blossom and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #ca9ee5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #ca9ee5 in 3 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ca9ee5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ca9ee5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.53:1 | 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 #ca9ee5 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
#ca9ee5 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 #ca9ee5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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