Color
#cc8aaa
#cc8aaargb(204, 138, 170)hsl(331, 39%, 67%)oklch(0.709 0.09 349.1)Colors that go with #cc8aaa
Charcoal, Copper and Midnight 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 #cc8aaa: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cc8aaa: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #cc8aaa, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #cc8aaa: 6 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #cc8aaa: 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Resort, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #cc8aaa, as the supporting colour.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #cc8aaa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #cc8aaa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cc8aaa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.78:1 | 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 #cc8aaa 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
#cc8aaa 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 #cc8aaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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