Color
#cba5df
#cba5dfrgb(203, 165, 223)hsl(279, 48%, 76%)oklch(0.775 0.091 313.8)Colors that go with #cba5df
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Crimson 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 #cba5df: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cba5df on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cba5df in 4 real palettes, including JBL's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #cba5df, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cba5df: 6 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Macaron, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #cba5df in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Telehealth, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Graphite Mono put Slate Gray beside #cba5df, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cba5df in 16 real palettes, including Blossom and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #cba5df
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cba5df as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.1:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.99:1 | 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 #cba5df 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
#cba5df 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 #cba5df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/cba5df-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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