Color
#cc85ba
#cc85bargb(204, 133, 186)hsl(315, 41%, 66%)oklch(0.706 0.111 336.5)Colors that go with #cc85ba
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Powder 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 body-text near-black for #cc85ba: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #cc85ba, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cc85ba: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cc85ba in 10 real palettes, including Meadow and Blossom, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cc85ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cc85ba: 3 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #cc85ba in 3 real palettes, including Meadow and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #cc85ba in 3 real palettes, including Netlify's brand system and Mercury's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cc85ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc85ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.63:1 | 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 #cc85ba 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
#cc85ba 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 #cc85ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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