Color

#cba9bf

#cba9bf
hex#cba9bf
rgbrgb(203, 169, 191)
hslhsl(321, 25%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.049 339.4)
Closest name: Lilac (#c8a2c8)Relative luminance 0.4483

Colors that go with #cba9bf

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 #cba9bf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9cbb5

#c6a9cb · #cba9ae

#bfcba9 · #a9bfcb

Split-complementary

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#aecba9 · #a9cbc6

#cbc6a9 · #a9cbb5 · #a9aecb

Contrast

#cba9bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6089 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #794968 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cba9bf 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

#cba9bf reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cba9bf
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 #cba9bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cba9bf-c19fb1-70cb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md