Color
#cbb5ed
#cbb5edrgb(203, 181, 237)hsl(264, 61%, 82%)oklch(0.811 0.081 302.6)Colors that go with #cbb5ed
Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Deep Sky 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 #cbb5ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #cbb5ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #cbb5ed: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #cbb5ed, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #cbb5ed: 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Stone, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #cbb5ed, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cbb5ed in 21 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Blossom, as the text colour against it.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #cbb5ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #cbb5ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbb5ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.37:1 | 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 #cbb5ed 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
#cbb5ed 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 #cbb5ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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