Color
#cba5ee
#cba5eergb(203, 165, 238)hsl(271, 68%, 79%)oklch(0.782 0.109 307.8)Colors that go with #cba5ee
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 #cba5ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #cba5ee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #cba5ee, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cba5ee: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Macaron, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #cba5ee, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cba5ee in 8 real palettes, including Blossom and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Yellow Green #9acd32
complementaryYellow Green sits directly opposite #cba5ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #cba5ee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #cba5ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cba5ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.16:1 | 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 #cba5ee 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
#cba5ee reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #cba5ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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