Color

#cba8d1

#cba8d1
hex#cba8d1
rgbrgb(203, 168, 209)
hslhsl(291, 31%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.776 0.069 321.4)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4531

Colors that go with #cba8d1

Charcoal, Emerald Green and Copper 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 →

#aed1a8

#b7a8d1 · #d1a8c3

#d1cba8 · #a8d1cb

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#c3d1a8 · #a8d1b7

#d1b7a8 · #aed1a8 · #a8c3d1

Contrast

#cba8d1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d5ba9 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #794582 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
10.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cba8d1 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

#cba8d1 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cba8d1
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 #cba8d1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cba8d1-bf9fc1-a4cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md