Color
#cc85b2
#cc85b2rgb(204, 133, 178)hsl(322, 41%, 66%)oklch(0.703 0.104 341.7)Colors that go with #cc85b2
Taupe, Dark Sea Green and Charcoal 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.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cc85b2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cc85b2: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #cc85b2 in 3 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #cc85b2 in 3 real palettes, including Stone and Macaron, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #cc85b2 in 3 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #cc85b2 in 3 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Resort, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
split-complementCadet Blue is a split-complement of #cc85b2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #cc85b2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc85b2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.57:1 | 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 #cc85b2 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
#cc85b2 reads as warm. 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 #cc85b2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/cc85b2-c19fb1-6ecb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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