Color

#cba9be

#cba9be
hex#cba9be
rgbrgb(203, 169, 190)
hslhsl(323, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.049 340.8)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4479

Colors that go with #cba9be

Charcoal, Dark Sea 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.

Real palettes that use #cba9be

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9cbb6

#c7a9cb · #cba9ad

#becba9 · #a9becb

Split-complementary

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#adcba9 · #a9cbc7

#cbc7a9 · #a9cbb6 · #a9adcb

Contrast

#cba9be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16389 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #794967 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cba9be 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

#cba9be reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cba9be
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 #cba9be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cba9be-c19fb0-6dcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md