Color

#cbaebf

#cbaebf
hex#cbaebf
rgbrgb(203, 174, 191)
hslhsl(325, 22%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.781 0.041 342)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4673

Colors that go with #cbaebf

Charcoal, Dark Sea Green and Champagne 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

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#aecbba

#c9aecb · #cbaeb1

#bfcbae · #aebfcb

Split-complementary

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#b1cbae · #aecbc9

#cbc9ae · #aecbba · #aeb1cb

Contrast

#cbaebf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.03:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c6384 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #764c64 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
10.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cbaebf 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/cbaebf-c19faf-69cb62-2d1f21-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md