Color
#cc8a9e
#cc8a9ergb(204, 138, 158)hsl(342, 39%, 67%)oklch(0.705 0.084 359.7)Colors that go with #cc8a9e
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Burlywood 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 #cc8a9e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #cc8a9e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cc8a9e in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #cc8a9e, as the surface under it.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cc8a9e: 4 real palettes, including Target : Expect More. Pay Less.'s brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cc8a9e in 4 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #cc8a9e, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cc8a9e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc8a9e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.7:1 | 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 #cc8a9e 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
#cc8a9e 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 #cc8a9e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/cc8a9e-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?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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