Color

#cb959d

#cb959d
hex#cb959d
rgbrgb(203, 149, 157)
hslhsl(351, 34%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.066 9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3663

Colors that go with #cb959d

Charcoal, Light Sea Green and Burlywood 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 #cb959d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95cbc3

#cb95b8 · #cba895

#9dcb95 · #959dcb

Split-complementary

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#95cba8 · #95b8cb

#b8cb95 · #95cbc3 · #a895cb

Contrast

#cb959d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b05e6b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #89434e as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cb959d 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

#cb959d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cb959d
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 #cb959d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cb959d-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md