Color

#cb8bad

#cb8bad
hex#cb8bad
rgbrgb(203, 139, 173)
hslhsl(328, 38%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.089 346.5)
Closest name: Exotic Lilac (#d198b5)Relative luminance 0.3418

Colors that go with #cb8bad

Charcoal, Copper 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8bcba9

#c98bcb · #cb8b8d

#adcb8b · #8badcb

Split-complementary

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#8dcb8b · #8bcbc9

#cbc98b · #8bcba9 · #8b8dcb

Contrast

#cb8bad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b35688 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #893e66 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cb8bad 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

#cb8bad reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cb8bad
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 #cb8bad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cb8bad-c19fad-64cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md