Color
#cc85c8
#cc85c8rgb(204, 133, 200)hsl(303, 41%, 66%)oklch(0.712 0.123 328.7)Colors that go with #cc85c8
Charcoal, Taupe and Dark Sea Green 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 #cc85c8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #cc85c8 in 7 real palettes, including Meadow and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cc85c8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementshippedLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #cc85c8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #cc85c8 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 #cc85c8 in 3 real palettes, including Netlify's brand system and Mercury's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #cc85c8, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cc85c8 in two real palettes: Gumroad's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cc85c8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc85c8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.71:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.76:1 | 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 #cc85c8 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
#cc85c8 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 #cc85c8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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